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The sermons of priests, archimandrites, and bishops are wonderfully like one another.
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One remembers the arguments about the brotherhood of man, public good, and work for the people, but really there were no such arguments, one only drank at the University. They write: "One feels ashamed of the men with University degrees who once fought for human rights and freedom of religion and conscience"—but they never fought.
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Every day after dinner the husband threatens his wife that he will become a monk, and the wife cries.
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Mordokhvostov.
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Husband and wife have lived together and quarreled for eighteen years. At last he makes a confession, which was in fact untrue, of having been false to her, and they part to his great pleasure and to the wrath of the whole town.