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  1. The sergeant's widow told you a lie when she said I flogged her. I never flogged her. She flogged herself.
  2. As it is so strangely ordained in this world, what is amusing will turn into being gloomy, if you stand too long before it, and then God kn…
  3. I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That's a totally different matter.
  4. There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
  5. The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
  6. And for a long time yet, led by some wondrous power, I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging im…
  7. Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
  8. Oh troika, winged troika, tell me who invented you? Surely, nowhere but among a nimble nation could you have been born in a country which h…

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