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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.

Alexander Pushkin

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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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Cabbage soup and barley. They’re Russia’s national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery.
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Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)
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I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.
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To love all ages yield surrender; But to the young it’s raptures bring A blessing bountiful and tender- As storms refresh the fields of spring.
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Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.
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Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.
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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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Moscow, how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!
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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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