When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.
MAXIM GORKYPolitics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
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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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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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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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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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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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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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When one loves somebody, everything is clear – where to go, what to do – it all takes care of itself and one doesn’t have to ask anybody about anything.
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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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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.
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