Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the p…

Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded. ✨ Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils), p.2157, e-artnow
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