“You're a gentleman," they used to say to him. "You shouldn't have gone murdering people with a hatchet; that's no occupation for a gentleman.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky , book Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment (1866)

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Russian author 1821–1881

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