By chance I picked up a copy of Peter De Vries comic
novel "Forever Panting" (1973). De Vries, a longtime editor at "The New
Yorker," and master of literary word-play, was the author of a series
of extremely witty novels. In the last chapter of "Forever Panting" I ran
across a quote from Pushkin's masterpiece.
Habit is
Heaven's own redress:
it takes the place of happiness. Ch. 2, st.
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Although unacknowledged, it seems to be
in Nabokov's translation of "Onegin."
Don Johnson