“Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.”

—  Mikhail Lermontov , book A Hero of Our Time

A Hero of Our Time (1840; rev. 1841)

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Russian writer, poet and painter 1814–1841

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