Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
MAXIM GORKYEverything which is good in me should be credited to books.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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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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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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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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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 Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.
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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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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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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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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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In war it is necessary to kill as many people as possible — such is the cynical logic of war. Brutality in a fight is unavoidable; have you seen how cruelly children fight in the streets?
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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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Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
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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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