anges; when he pours out wine, he first puts a little in his own
glass and then helps the company; when he walks with a lady he takes
her arm; in general he tries to show refinement. He does not laugh at
other people's jokes: "You repeat yourself." "There is nothing new in
that." Every one is sick of him; he sermonizes. The old women nickname
him "the top."

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A man who can not do anything, does not know how to act, how to enter
a room, how to ask for anything.

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Utiujny

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A man who always insists: "I haven't got syphilis. I'm an honest man.
My wife is an honest woman."

* * * * *

X. all his life spoke and wrote about the vices of servants and about
the way to manage and control them, and he died deserted by every one
except his valet and his cook.

* * * * *

A little girl with rapture about her aunt: "She is very beautiful, as
beautiful as our dog!"

* * * * *

Marie Ivanovna Kolstovkin.

* * * * *

In a love letter: "Stamp enclosed for a reply."

* * * * *

The best men leave the villages for the towns, and therefore the
villages decline and will continue to decline.

* * * * *

Pavel was a cook for forty years; he loathed the things which he
cooked and he never ate.

* * * * *

He ceased to love a woman; the sensation of not being in love; a
peaceful state of mind; long peaceful thoughts.

* * * * *

Conservative people do so little harm because they are timid and have
no confidence in themselves; harm is done not by conservative but by
malicious people.

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One of two things: either sit in the carriage or get out of it.

* * * * *

For a play: an old woman of radical views dresses like a girl, smokes,
cannot exist without company, sympathetic.

* * * * *

In a Pullman car--these are the dregs of society.

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On the lady's bosom was the portrait of a fat German.

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A man who at all elections all his life long always voted against the