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"But may I ask HOW you desire to purchase those peasants?" asked Manilov. "With land, or merely as souls for transferment--that is to say, by themselves, and without any land?" "I want the peasants themselves only," replied Chichikov. "And I want dead ones at that."

-Dead Souls

Gogol, Nikolai. The Works of Nikolai Gogol (Annotated with Biography) . Golgotha Press. Kindle Edition.

"In the department of--but it is better not to mention the department. There is nothing more irritable than departments, regiments, courts of justice, and, in a word, every branch of public service."

Gogol, Nikolai. The Works of Nikolai Gogol (Annotated with Biography) . Golgotha Press. Kindle Edition.