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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.

Alexander Pushkin

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  A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

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  Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.

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