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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: and makes him savage; hunger is not a potato. When a man is
starving he uses bad language, and steals, and may do worse. . .
. One must realize that."
Ivan Ivanitch choked over his tea, coughed, and shook all over
with a squeaky, smothered laughter.
" 'There was a battle at Pol . . . Poltava,' " he brought out,
gesticulating with both hands in protest against the laughter and
coughing which prevented him from speaking. " 'There was a battle
at Poltava!' When three years after the Emancipation we had
famine in two districts here, Fyodor Fyodoritch came and invited
me to go to him. 'Come along, come along,' he persisted, and
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