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Youth eats all the sugared fancy cakes and regards them as its daily bread. But there'll come a time when you'll start asking just for a crust.

Ivan Turgenev

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Ivan Turgenev
Age: 65 †
Born: 1818
Born: January 1
Died: 1883
Died: January 1
Dramaturge
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Opinion Journalist
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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
Come
Cake
Time
Fancy
Bread
Daily
Sugared
Regard
Cakes
Asking
Crust
Youth
Regards
Start
Eats

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