"In the first place, that makes other people think that you do not possess that vice.
"In the second place, your wrath may even be sincere…. You may profit by the reproaches of your own conscience.
"If, for example, you are a renegade, reproach your adversary with having no convictions!
"If you yourself are a lackey in soul, say to him with reproof that he is a lackey … the lackey of civilisation, of Europe, of socialism!"
"You may even say, the lackey of non-lackeyism!" I remarked.
"You may do that also," chimed in the old rascal.
February, 1878.
THE END OF THE WORLD
A DREAM
It seems to me as though I am somewhere in Russia, in the wilds, in a plain country house.