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Quotation from The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Good folks live honestly, good folks live without falsity, and they never have doubles.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky (spoken by Petrushka)

The Double, Chapter IX, trans. Constance Garnett (1917)

Portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky

Golyadkin's servant, refusing to serve a master who has a double, gives his own blunt verdict.

Citation: "Good folks live honestly, good folks live without falsity, and they never have doubles." — Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double, Chapter IX, trans. Constance Garnett (1917). (id dostoevsky-the-double-q2)

Portrait: Portrait of Fedor Dostoyevsky, Vasily Perov, Public domain.

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