A man who’s active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what’s known to be decisive? Custom is despot of mankind.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINThe less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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Love passed, the Muse appeared, the weather of mind got clarity new-found; now free, I once more weave together emotion, thought, and magic sound.
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Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.
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Cabbage soup and barley. They’re Russia’s national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
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Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery.
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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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Moscow, how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!
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Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.
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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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