Death is an old joke, but it comes like new to everyone. - Ivan Turgenev

Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. "I don't adopt any one's ideas; I have my own."

Naturally," observed Nikolai Petrovich, "you were born here, so everything is bound to strike you with a special —" "Really, Daddy, it makes absolutely no difference where a person is born." "Still —" "No, it makes no difference at all.

There was a time,' Nikolai Artemyevitch resumed, 'when daughters did not allow themselves to look down on their parents—when the parental authority forced the disobedient to tremble. That time has passed, unhappily: so at least many persons imagine; but let me tell you, there are still laws which do not permit—do not permit—in fact there are still laws. I beg you to mark that: there are still laws——