Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
NIKOLAI GOGOLWhat are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.
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I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That’s a totally different matter.
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Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.
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But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.
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Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die.
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There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.
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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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