We proletariats, plain and poor people, coming from the backyard of life, we must study and study, in order to come to the front, ahead of everybody.

Russia is in need of wise and honest people.
Try to be such, and you will be master of your fate and a useful member of society.

On us commoners rest the best hopes of the country.

We are destined to bring into it light, truth,' and so on.

I believed him, the brute.