Such are our relations: we are bound to pet them, to love them, to respect them from the heart and, after the custom of the people, to visit them at Christmas or congratulate them by post, so that for the rest of the year they should not think of us... An

Such are our relations: we are bound to pet them,
To love them, to respect them from the heart
And, after the custom of the people,
To visit them at Christmas
Or congratulate them by post,
So that for the rest of the year
They should not think of us...
And so, God grant them long days!

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"Eugene Onegin", Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin

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