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| By us the habits have been got Instead of happiness from God. (Так немного изящнее, чем дословный вариант. По-моему и у Набокова не так примитивно. slavchuk) | |||
| Habit is given to us from above: it is a substitute for happiness (Alexander Pushkin. eugene Onegin, ch. 2, 31. Trans. by Vladimir Nabokov. VLZ_58) | |||