Alexander Pushkin: "The bread of the stranger is bitter," says Dante , "and his staircase hard to climb." But who can know what the bittern

"The bread of the stranger is bitter," says Dante , "and his staircase hard to c — Alexander Pushkin

"The bread of the stranger is bitter," says Dante , "and his staircase hard to climb." But who can know what the bitterness of dependence is so well as the poor companion of an old lady of quality?

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