13:47"Yes, my good readers, you would not have wanted to see man’s poverty exposed. ‘Why,’ you ask, ‘what’s the point? Don’t we ourselves know that there’s much in life that’s contemptible and stupid? As it is, we often have occasion to see things that are far from comforting. Better that you show us what’s beautiful and distracting. Better that we should forget ourselves!’ ‘Why, friend, are you telling me that things are going badly for the estate?’ says the landowner to the steward. I know that anyway, friend, don’t you really have anything else to talk about? Just let me forget it and not know anything about it, and then I’ll be happy.’" — Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
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