Comment by Ms_Use on Rationality Quotes September 2011 · 2011-09-03T07:22:25.069Z · LW · GW

It's a rather lousy translation of the proverb, the more close variant of which than that above is mentioned in Vladimir Dahl's famous collection of russian proverbs: Церковь близко, да ходить склизко, а кабак далеконько, да хожу потихоньку.