Nikolai Gogol Quotes

The Said Ivan Dovgochkun, Son Of Nikifor, When I Went To Him With A Friendly Proposition, Called Me Publicly By An Epithet Insulting And Injurious To My Honor, Namely, A Goose, Whereas It Is Known To The Whole District Of Mirgorod, That I Never Was Named After That Disgusting Animal, And Have No Intention Of Ever Being Named After It. And The Proof Of My Noble Extraction Is, That, In The Baptismal Register To Be Found In The Church Of The Three Bishops, The Day Of My Birth, And Likewise The Fact Of My Baptism, Are Inscribed. But A Goose, As Is Well Known To Every One Who Has Any Knowledge Of Science, Cannot Be Inscribed In The Baptismal Register; For A Goose Is Not A Man, But A Fowl: Which, Likewise, Is Sufficiently Well Known, Even To Persons Who Have Not Been To A Seminary. But The Evil-minded Nobleman, Being Privy To All These Facts, For No Other Purpose Than To Offer A Deadly Insult To My Rank And Calling, Affronted Me With The Aforesaid Foul Word.

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