'Mind, here are some peasants coming...'

The men began preparing for dinner.

Men are all the same.

All men are the same.

Voyenny, commenting on Medvedev's decree

My gains are bigger when the peasants work better.'

Men lick their lips when they look at her.

But tell me, how do the peasants take it?

I hate women who say that all men are the same.

At present the peasants around here are buying land that does not pain me.

American football is for sissies. If you're a real man you play rugby.

They go on a rally wordless stand, smoke and nibble sunflower seeds.

Boobs are the proof that men can focus at two things at once!

The peasants would not pay so much, and Levin suspected them of keeping other buyers off.

At first, I was doing this, and then the guys who were carrying began to do it properly themselves.

The men who had driven from a distance gathered in the shadow of their carts those who lived nearer sheltered under the willow growth, on which they hung grass.

And these guys took off, followed the footsteps of the villagers until they found and passed them.

Men with hayforks followed the women, and the ridges grew into tall, wide and light haycocks.

THE COACHMAN STOPPED THE HORSES and looked round toward a field of rye on the right, where some peasants sat beside a cart.

And then there are all those peasants who come to him every day as if it were his business to help them.

The peasants beside the cart all got up and looked with merry curiosity at the visitor, making their own comments.

I just understood that the guys who were carrying from the entrance were now yelling that should be taken to the ambulances.

I see it in the peasants too sometimes a proper peasant always tries to get hold of as much land as possible.

At the edge of the marsh the peasant boys and men who had pastured their horses in the night lay, covered with their coats, having fallen asleep at daybreak.

The peasants asked him to let them some meadows at a reduced rent, I think, and he refused, and I reproached him with being stingy.

It was true that the peasants of that group, though they had agreed to farm the land on the new conditions, did not speak of it as co operatively held land, but as land held for payment in kind and that the members of that group and Rezunov himself said to Levin 'If you would only accept money for the land it would be less trouble for you, and we should feel freer.'

The local men opposed this innovation by all the means in their power, but the plan succeeded, and in the first year the meadows brought in almost double.

Moreover, these peasants, on all sorts of pretexts, kept putting off the building of the cattle sheds and granary they had agreed to put up on this land, and dragged the matter on till winter.

As he drew nearer, the peasants following each other in a long straggling line, some with coats on, some in their shirts, each swinging his scythe in his own manner gradually came into sight.

'You know that capitalism oppresses the workers. Our workmen the peasants bear the whole burden of labour, but are so placed that, work as they may, they cannot escape from their degrading condition.

'Because the peasants are still just as much slaves as they used to be, and that is why you and Sergius Ivanich don't like it when anyone wishes to deliver them from their slavery,' replied Nicholas Levin, irritated by Constantine's objection.

'What are they talking about, and why don't they start another swath?' thought Levin. It did not occur to him that the peasants, who had been mowing unceasingly for four hours, wanted their breakfast.

But this year the peasants had agreed to get the harvest in and take one third of all the hay in payment. Now the Elder had come to inform Levin that the hay was all made and that for fear of rain he had asked the steward to come, and in his presence had apportioned the hay and had already stacked eleven stacks of the landlord's share.

Well, of course they are all our own people, our neighbours one pities them, and lends them what they want, enough to pay the one third then due, but one says, Remember, lads! I help you, and you must help me when necessary at the oat sowing or haymaking, at harvest time and one agrees for so much work from each family.

'Mr. Levin,' she began, 'explain to me, please, you who know everything, how it is that at our Kaluga estate the peasant men and women have drunk everything they had, and never pay anything they owe us.

Now in our case we landlords under serfdom applied improved methods of agriculture we introduced the winnowing machines and all sorts of tools, organized the carting of manure all by our authority, and the peasants at first resisted and afterwards copied us.

It was true that often when talking to the peasants, and explaining to them the advantages of the plan, Levin felt that they were only listening to the sound of his voice and were quite determined, whatever he might say, not to let themselves be taken in.

I and millions of men who lived centuries ago and those who are living now peasants, the poor in spirit, and sages, who have thought and written about it, saying the same thing in their obscure words we all agree on that one thing what we should live for, and what is good.