I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That’s a totally different matter.
NIKOLAI GOGOLOf 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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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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I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.
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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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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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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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it’s not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments. I must exhibit life full-face, not discuss life.
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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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Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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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 more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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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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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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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 am who I am and that’s who I am.
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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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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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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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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