One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
MAXIM GORKYWriters build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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Jail doesn’t teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!
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Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That’s why we want to be considerate of every man – Who knows what’s in him, why he was born and what he can do?
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Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty each and every one of us.
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The higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure that this is also a truth.
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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What I’d like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: “Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.
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Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.
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Every new time will give its law.
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Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
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Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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