Sortes Chestertonianae

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At this he looked very much astonished, and I knew he was an Englishman; for Englishmen always think that Russians study nothing but 'ukases'.
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- Don't you see one only breaks the fence or shoots the moon in order to get home- No, - I answered after due reflection, - I don't think I should accept that

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Прим.: "Here Chesterton ... anticipates the eventual failure of the Russian Revolution (which officially began in 1917, five years after this novel was published)".