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 GOGOLThey’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.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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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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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.
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The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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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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They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don’t leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!
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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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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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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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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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