spent any
amount of money on dresses and looked forward to making a display of
them--so she gave parties.

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Going to Paris with one's wife is like going to Tula[1] with one's
samovar.

[Footnote 1: Tula is a Russian city where samovars are manufactured.]

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The young do not go in for literature, because the best of them work
on steam engines, in factories, in industrial undertakings. All of
them have now gone into industry, and industry is making enormous
progress.

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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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