The subject of a rumor is always the last to hear it. The Post Office Girl
Among a number of intelligent suggestions there was finally this one too, strange as it may seem, that Chichikov might be Napoleon in disguise... Dead Souls
“Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.” 12 Rules For Life: An Antidote To Chaos
Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say. Book IV
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