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Thread #100107   Message #2004469
Posted By: Peace
22-Mar-07 - 06:46 PM
Thread Name: BS: Quotation sources?
Subject: RE: BS: Quotation sources?
#5

'I am very much interested in cards,' Hermann said, 'but I am not in a position to sacrifice the essential in the hope of acquiring the superfluous.'

That is from "The Queen of Spades" by Pushkin.