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ALEXÁNDRA IVÁNOVNA. Then it is much more profitable to steal than to
work.
STYÓPA. You never reply to one's arguments. I say that a man who
saves, has a right to enjoy his savings.
NICHOLAS IVÁNOVICH [smiling] I don't know which I am to reply to. [To
Peter Semyónovich] It's true. One should not possess anything.
ALEXÁNDRA IVÁNOVNA. But if one should not possess anything, one can't
have any clothes, nor even a crust of bread, but must give away
everything, so that it's impossible to live.
NICHOLAS IVÁNOVICH. And it should be impossible to live as we do!
STYÓPA. In other words, we must die! Therefore, that teaching is unfit
for life....
NICHOLAS IVÁNOVICH. No. It is given just that men may live. Yes. One
should give everything away. Not only the forest we do not use and
hardly ever see, but even our clothes and our bread.
ALEXÁNDRA IVÁNOVNA. What! And the children's too?
NICHOLAS IVÁNOVICH. Yes, the children's too. And not only our bread, but
ourselves. Therein lies the whole teaching of Christ. One must strive
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