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The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

CHAPTER XVIII
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Each one practices it,--X, Y, Z, etc.

What is the use of multiplying beggars, and depriving ourselves of the joys of social life?
There is no necessity of having conscience before the criminal code, or of fearing it: low girls, soldiers' wives who throw their children into ponds or wells, these certainly must be put in prison.

But with us the suppression is effected opportunely and properly.
"Thus we passed two years more.

The method prescribed by the rascals had evidently succeeded.

My wife had grown stouter and handsomer.


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