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1 " Good luck, Oretsev. Find the firebird, and when this is over, I'll see you well rewarded. A farmhouse in Udova. A dacha near the city. Whatever you want." " I don't need any of that. Just..." He dropped Nikolai's hand and looked away. " Deserve her. "
2 " To leave town, and the struggle and the swim of life, and go and hide yourself in a farmhouse is not life -- it is egoism, laziness; it is a kind of monasticism, but monasticism without action. A man needs, not six feet of land, not a farm, but the whole earth, all Nature, where in full liberty he can display all the properties and qualities of the free spirit. "
― Anton Chekhov , The Complete Short Novels
3 " Before reaching Grassy Butte, though, Dad spied a farmhouse with two pumps in the drive and a red-and-white sign out front saying DALE'S OIL COMPANY. Another sign said CLOSED, but a light was on in the house and Dad pulled in, saying, " I believe we might prevail on Dale. What do you think?" " Prevail on Dale," I repeated to Swede." To make a sale," she added." And if we fail, we'll whale on Dale--" " Till he needs braille!" " Will you guys desist?" Dad asked. "
4 " I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire. "
