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The illness with which he'd been smitten
should have been analysed when caught,
something like spleen, that scourge of Britain,
or Russia's chondria, for short.

— Aleksandr Pushkin Eugene Onegin (1823)

Недуг, которого причину
Давно бы отыскать пора,
Подобный английскому сплину,
Короче: русская хандра

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Ch. 1, st. 38.

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