Taras Shevchenko,
The Kobzar of the Ukraine — A Father's Legacy
(1922)
“ So Gregory Shevchenko distributed his pitiful treasures to the children and to his wife,—saying finally— "To my son, Taras, I give nothing. He will be no common man. Either he will be something very good or else a great rascal. For him the patrimony will either mean nothing, or will not help any." ”
