Leo Tolstoy

(1828—1910), Russian novelist

Children are a torment and nothing else.

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Leo Tolstoy

(1828-1910), Russian novelist Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. www.sky-net-eye.com

Leo Tolstoy

(1828-1910), Russian novelist Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible. www.sky-net-eye.com

wade through

[wade through] {v. phr.} To read through something long and laborious. * /It took John six months to wade through Tolstoy's War and Peace in the original Russian./ A Dictionary of American Idioms

Prutkov Kozma

Kozma Prutkov - a collective pseudonym for the group of Russian writers - Alexey Tolstoy and Zhemchuzhnikov brothers, who performed jointly in 50-60s of the 19th century. www.sky-net-eye.com

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бешеные деньги

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pass by the board

[pass by the board] See: [GO BY THE BOARD].

put by

[put by] {v.} To save for the future; lay aside. * /He had put by a good sum during a working lifetime./

Arjay Miller, Dean of Stanford GSB

Don't do anything you wouldn't be willing to explain on television.