We are tired out by servility and hypocrisy.

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N. once had his clothes torn by dogs, and now, when he pays a call
anywhere, he asks: "Aren't there any dogs here?"

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A young pimp, in order to keep up his powers, always eats garlic.

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School guardian. Widowed priest plays the harmonium and sings: "Rest
with the saints."

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In July the red bird sings the whole morning.

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"A large selection of _cigs"_[1]--so read X. every day when he went
down the street, and wondered how one could deal only in _cigs_ and
who wanted them. It took him thirty years before he read it correctly:
"A large selection of cigars."

[Footnote 1: _Cigs_ in Russian is a kind of fish.]

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