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King Louis XIV complained that he lost more of his empire to his astronomers than to his enemies

my friend Pyotr Petrovich, who still retained the student habit of turning everything into an argument spoke boringly, listlessly and longwindedly - he was obviously most anxious to appear advanced and clever

“through the tears and the melancholy, inspired by the music of the verse or the beauty of the evening, there always rose upwards, like the grasses of the spring, skies of happy feeling, of young and sitting life”