Thought for the Day

Tuesday 21 December 1999 00:02 GMT
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"God of frostbite, God of famine, beggars, cripples by the yard, farms with

no crops to examine - that's him, that's your Russian God."

Prince Peter Vyazemsky, Russian poet

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