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"But please, sort this out thoroughly today: think about who you choose to be with: the lawyers of the law of different verbs, or with the one who gave you the "verbs of eternal life"... Think about it! This is very much worth your consideration, and the choice is not difficult for you... Do not be afraid to seem ridiculous and stupid if you act according to the rule of the one who told you: "Forgive the offender and make a brother of yourself in him." I have told you trifles, but you be smart - and choose for yourself something useful in trifles, so that you will have something to pass into eternity with." This Christmas story by N.S. Leskov shows us how we should treat offenders. Nikolai Semyonovich pleases us not only with his literary style, pleasant speech, but with a kind (even instructive) meaning, which "does not stick out" in his stories, but smoothly builds up in the head as you read.