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# At least Khlestakov, for all his lying, still feared a little, in the midst of it, that they might take him by the scruff and throw him out
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- Published: 2024-05-27T06:32:54.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:33:41.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
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At least Khlestakov, for all his lying, still feared a little, in the midst of it, that they might take him by the scruff and throw him out. The Khlestakovs of today have no such fear and lie in perfect tranquillity.

Everyone is calm, everyone is immeasurably vain, and one would think that this alone ought to torment them with perpetual anxiety. On the contrary, the modern egotist does not tremble for himself: how he came in, how he stands, whether he spoke well.

**Fyodor Dostoevsky. A Writer's Diary**