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“The best definition of man is: a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Title
Wikiquote: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Context

Part 1, Chapter 8 (tr. David Magarshack, 1950)

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Dostoevsky, Fyodor. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoyevsky

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