"[T]here is the wonderful wealth of the language, which, as a popular tongue, is more flexible, more expressive of thought than any other living tongue I know of."
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Ernst von der Brüggen, Russia of To-day (1904) (a translation of Das heutige Russland of 1902), page 203, as quoted by W. L. Phelps in Essays on Russian Novelists (1911), page 7
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