"You see, it's ten years since I visited Petersburg.

All the novelties, reforms, ideas have reached us in the provinces, but to see it all more clearly one must be in Petersburg.
And it's my notion that you observe and learn most by watching the younger generation.

And I confess I am delighted..." "At what ?" "Your question is a wide one.

I may be mistaken, but I fancy I find clearer views, more, so to say, criticism, more practicality..." "That's true," Zossimov let drop.
"Nonsense! There's no practicality." Razumihin flew at him.
"Practicality is a difficult thing to find; it does not drop down from heaven.

And for the last two hundred years we have been divorced from all practical life.