sitting on the fence

Oh, how dreadful it is not to have any opinions! You see a bottle, for instance, or the rain, or a peasant, and you cannot say what they are there for, and you could not say it even for a thousand roubles.

(transl. by David Magarshack) 

And how awful it is not to have any opinions! One sees a bottle, for instance, or the rain, or a peasant driving in his cart, but what the bottle is for, or the rain, or the peasant, and what is the meaning of it, one can't say, and could not even for a thousand roubles.
(transl. by Constance Garrett)

(А.П.Чехов: Душечка   Chekhov: The Darling)

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bluebeard, the stoat