It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
NIKOLAI GOGOLDon’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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They’re thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he’ll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
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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 saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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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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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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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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Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.
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The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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