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Quotation from Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin

“Habit was given us in distress By Heaven in lieu of happiness.”

Alexander Pushkin (spoken by The narrator)

Eugene Onegin, Canto the Second, trans. Henry Spalding (1881)

The narrator describes how Tatiana's mother came to accept her marriage.

Citation: "Habit was given us in distress By Heaven in lieu of happiness." — Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin, Canto the Second, trans. Henry Spalding (1881). (id pushkin-eugene-onegin-q1)

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