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Anna Karenina

‘Impossible, as it seems to me.... For the three thousand
square miles of our district, what with our thaws, and the
storms, and the work in the fields, I don’t see how it is
possible to provide medical aid all over. And besides, I

don’t believe in medicine.’
‘Oh, well, that’s unfair...I can quote to you thousands
of instances.... But the schools, anyway.’
‘Why have schools?’
‘What do you mean? Can there be two opinions of the
advantage of education? If it’s a good thing for you, it’s a
good thing for everyone.’
Konstantin Levin felt himself morally pinned against a
wall, and so he got hot, and unconsciously blurted out the
chief cause of his indifference to public business.
‘Perhaps it may all be very good; but why should I
worry myself about establishing dispensaries which I shall
never make use of, and schools to which I shall never send
my children, to which even the peasants don’t want to
send their children, and to which I’ve no very firm faith
that they ought to send them?’ said he.
Sergey Ivanovitch was for a minute surprised at this
unexpected view of the subject; but he promptly made a
new plan of attack. He was silent for a little, drew out a
hook, threw it in again, and turned to his brother smiling.

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