Author of quotes: Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov. Page 37
I was involuntarily struck by the ability of the Russian person to apply to the customs of the peoples among whom he happens to live; I don't know, worthy of censure or praise a quality of mind, but it proves the incredible flexibility and the presence of that clear common sense which pardons evil wherever it sees the need or the impossibility of its destruction.
Our audience so young and ingenuous, that does not understand fable, if in the end finds it in sermons. She did not guess jokes are not sense of irony; it is simply badly brought up. She does not know that in a decent society and a decent book is a clear abuse can not take place; that modern education has invented a weapon sharper, almost invisible and yet deadly, which, under the clothing of flattery, causing an irresistible and a sure shot.
