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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!

Maxim Gorky

Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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Born Children Future Mom Thinking
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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Life Pleasure Responsibility Slave Work
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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Man Reading Sanity Thinking Truth
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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Complex Feeling Form God Individual Link Organization Social
All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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Human Rough Soul
Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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Human Material Natural Process
Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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Delight Ourselves Salvation Work
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
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Big Hands Happiness Hold Precious Small
Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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Art Cultivation Force Influence Man Science Success
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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Bush Garden Goodness Peace Quiet
Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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Enemy Mercy Ourselves Past
An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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Brain Honesty Idiot Man Right
The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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Bitter Creature Human Hungry Life Taste
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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Art Goodness Quality Soul Success
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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Better Friendship Future Himself Live Man Positivity
You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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Better Children Way Writing

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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