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by Edward Gibbon
Diligence and accuracy are the only merits which an historical writer may ascribe to himself; if any merit indeed can be...
by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский
C'était une nuit de conte, ami lecteur, une de ces nuits qui ne peuvent guère survenir que dans notre jeunesse.
by Günter Grass
GRANTED : I AM an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there's a pe...
by Knut Hamsun
All of this happened while I was walking around starving in Christiania-that strange city no one escapes from until it h...
by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
On they went, singing "Rest Eternal," and whenever they stopped, their feet, the horses, and the gusts of wind seemed to...
by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский
Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, a landowner in our district who became a c...
by Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков
Once upon an unusually hot hour of sunset in spring, two gentlemen appeared at Patriarch's Ponds in Moscow.
by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский
В конце ноября, в оттепель, часов в девять утра, поезд Петербургско-Варшавской железной дороги на всех парах подходил к ...
by Franz Kafka
As Karl Rossmann, a poor boy of sixteen who had been packed off to America by his parents because a servant girl had sed...
by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский
IN setting out to describe the recent and very strange events that occurred in our hitherto completely undistinguished l...
by Евгений Иванович Замятин
I shall simply copy, word for word, the proclamation that appeared today in the One State Gazette: The building of the I...
by Titus Livius
At the beginning of the following year the consuls and praetors balloted for their provinces.
by Charles Dickens
WHETHER I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by any body else, these pag...
by Erich Maria Remarque
We are at rest five miles behind the front.
by Plutarch
IT is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidenc...