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Zoshchenko, Mikhail

The Westinghouse Brake

March 26, 2009January 6, 2007 by miette

Plenty of you (because I’m supposing you’re all geniuses) are aware of the arguably unattributable (King Solomon? Buddha? Lincoln? Miette?) aphorism, idiom, and, notably, universally applicable phrase “This Too Shall Pass.

Categories Zoshchenko, Mikhail Tags russian, satire, soviet 2 Comments

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