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Пора на пенсию, понимаешь ли; мне это тоже чудно, и, может, еще чуднее, чем тебе; не зря же говорят: охранник проводит в тюрьме полсрока зэка...
My date for retirement's coming up, you see; and the idea's as queer to me as it is to you-queerer, perhaps, for you know what they say, that if a prisoner does two years in gaol, then his guard does one…
Уотерс, Сара / Ночной дозорWaters, Sarah / The Night Watch
The Night Watch
Waters, Sarah
© 2006 by Sarah Waters
Ночной дозор
Уотерс, Сара
© 2006 by Sarah Waters
© А. Сафронов, перевод с английского, 2008
© Издание на русском языке, ООО "Издательство "Эксмо", 2008
— Он не зря говорил, что тот, кто избрал удел святого, не должен жениться, — заявляет священник.
“He did say,” the minister says, “that saints shouldn’t marry.”
Апдайк, Джон / Кролик, бегиUpdike, John / Rabbit, Run
Rabbit, Run
Updike, John
© 1998 by Ballantine Books
Кролик, беги
Апдайк, Джон
© Издательство «Правда», 1990
- А может, и не зря, трудно сказать.
"But perhaps it would only have made matters worse."
Толкиен, Джон Рональд Руэл / Братство КольцаTolkien, John Ronald Reuel / The Fellowship of the Ring
The Fellowship of the Ring
Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel
© 1954, 1965, 1966 by J.R.R. Tolkien
© renewed 1982 by Christopher R. Tolkien, Michael H.R. Tolkien, John F.R. Tolkien and Priscilla M.A.R. Tolkien
© renewed 1993, 1994 by Christopher R.Tolkien, John F.R. Tolkien and Priscilla M.A.R. Tolkien
© 2003 J. R. R. Tolkien
Братство Кольца
Толкиен, Джон Рональд Руэл
© Издательство "Радуга", 1988

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  1. 1.

    They say ... for a reason

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    They say

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    It is not said in vain

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    the maxim remains true

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