Some people have luck, and everything comes out right with them; others have none, and never a thing turns out fortunately.

I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic.

The public generally can only ejaculate in amazement.

There are some people who interest us immediately, at first glance, before a word is exchanged.

Maximov, a landowner of Tula. He at once entered into our.

That they may believe you, you must say it as obscurely as possible, just like that, simply in hints. You must only give them a peep of the truth, just enough to tantalize them. They'll tell a story better than ours, and of course they'll believe themselves more than they would us...

I was not only not a spiteful but not even an embittered man, that I was simply scaring sparrows at random and amusing myself by it.