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A useless thing, an album with forgotten, uninteresting photographs, lies in the corner on a chair; it has been lying there for the last twenty years and no one makes up his mind to throw it away.
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N. tells how forty years ago X., a wonderful and extraordinary man, had saved the lives of five people, and N. feels it strange that every one listened with indifference, that the history of X. is already forgotten, uninteresting….
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They fell upon the soft caviare greedily, and devoured it in a minute.
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In the middle of a serious conversation he says to his little son:
"Button up your trousers."
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Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.