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To be drunk in Moscow is like having a relatively common hair color. Can you fault a man for the color of his hair? I think not.

— Yurii Andrukhovych

Бути п'яним у Москві — це все одно, що мати волосся досить поширеного кольору. Хіба можна докоряти людині за колір її волосся? Мабуть, ні.

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