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Families where the woman is bourgeoise easily breed adventurers, swindlers, and brutes without ideals.

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A professor’s opinion:  not Shakespeare, but the commentaries on him are the thing.

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Let the coming generation attain happiness; but they surely ought to ask themselves, for what did their ancestors live and for what did they suffer.

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Love, friendship, respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.

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13th December.  I saw the owner of a mill, the mother of a family, a rich Russian woman, who has never seen a lilac bush in Russia.

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In a letter:  “A Russian abroad, if not a spy, is a fool.”  The neighbor goes to Florence to cure himself of love, but at a distance his love grows stronger.

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Yalta.  A young man, interesting, liked by a lady of forty.  He is indifferent to her, avoids her.  She suffers and at last, out of spite, gets up a scandal about him.

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Pete’s mother even in her old age beaded her eyes.

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Viciousness is a bag with which man is born.

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B. said seriously that he is the Russian Maupassant.  And so did S.

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A Jewish surname:  Cap.

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A lady looking like a fish standing on its head; her mouth like a slit, one longs to put a penny in it.

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Russians abroad:  the men love Russia passionately, but the women don’t like her and soon forget her.

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Chemist Propter.

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Rosalie Ossipovna Aromat.

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It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.

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And she began to engage in prostitution, got used to sleeping on the bed, while her aunt, fallen into poverty, used to lie on the little carpet by her side and jumped up each time the bell rang; when they left, she would say mindingly, with a pathetic grimace; “Something for the chamber-maid.”  And they would tip her sixpence.

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Prostitutes in Monte Carlo, the whole tone is prostitutional; the palm trees, it seems, are prostitutes, and the chickens are prostitutes.

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