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He was one of the
numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animate abortions, conceited,
half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only
to vulgarise it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.
Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment (1866)
He certainly had a way with words did old Fyodor.
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'The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones...'
I said that to Mrs O'Blene only a few minutes ago, as I poured her a large January tincture - 11%...
Didn't Fyodor write a travel book as well? Clever guys these Albanians!
Scrobs – the Albanian connection is a common misconception. He was in fact the inventor of a cocktail called the Albanian Dive - four parts gin, two parts gin, two parts gin and an Albanian olive on a stick.
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