The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral… Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That’s my idea.
NIKOLAI GOGOLWe ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
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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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For contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation.
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It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and noble alike, are at first obedient to man and only later on become his terrible masters.
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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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For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.
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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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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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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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