Mikhail Bulgakov: `Second freshness - that's what is nonsense! There is only one freshness - the first - and it is also the last. And if s

`Second freshness - that's what is nonsense! There is only one freshness - the f — Mikhail Bulgakov

`Second freshness - that's what is nonsense! There is only one freshness - the first - and it is also the last. And if sturgeon is of the second freshness, that means it is simply rotten.'

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