When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
MAXIM GORKYOne has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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It is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.
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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.
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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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With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
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God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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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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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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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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There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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