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A dream of a keeper in the zoological gardens. He dreams that there was presented to the Zoo first a marmot, then an emu, then a vulture, then a she-goat, then another emu; the presentations are made without end and the Zoo is crowded out--the keeper wakes up in horror wet with perspiration.
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"To harness slowly but drive rapidly is in the nature of this people," said Bismarck.
* * * * * When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters, but telegrams.  
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With insects, out of the caterpillar comes the butterfly; with mankind it is the other way round, out of the butterfly comes the caterpillar.[1]
[Footnote 1: There is a play on words here, the Russian word for butterfly also means a woman.]
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The dogs in the house became attached not to their masters who fed and fondled them, but to the cook, a foreigner, who beat them.
* * *...   Chekhov, Anton

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