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 GOGOLThe 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.
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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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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.
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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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I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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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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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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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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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
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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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