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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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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN

Dear Deception Elevate Host Low Truth
Play interests me very much,” said Hermann: “but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.
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Interest Myself Play Position Sacrifice Win
Moscow, how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!
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Fuse Heart Store Strain
I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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Change Happiness Marriage Myself
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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Age Blessing Love Refreshment Storm Surrender
It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
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Better Choice Dreams
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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Argument Difference Fear Flattery Fools Insult
I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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Language Myself Study Understand
In this, our age of infamy Man’s choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he.
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Age Choice Himself Man Prison
Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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Better Illusion Stop Truth
With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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Charm Kind Love Woman
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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Darling Family Learning Organization
Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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Love Man Raise
Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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Friendship Myself People
Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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Happiness Oneself Pleasure Publish Writing
I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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Amusing Born Myself
A man who’s active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what’s known to be decisive? Custom is despot of mankind.
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Active Care Fight Kind Man Mindset
Love passed, the Muse appeared, the weather of mind got clarity new-found; now free, I once more weave together emotion, thought, and magic sound.
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Appearance Emotion Finding Love Magic Sound Togetherness Weave
Cabbage soup and barley. They’re Russia’s national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
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Barley Boredom Excellence Food National Shade Soup
Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.
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Aspiration Dreams Fine Fresh Leaving Sad Success
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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Avoid Herself Love Please Responsibility Woman
Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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Dance Human Soul
If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
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Attempt Burn Flame Reason
Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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Mathematics Need Poetry
I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.
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Life Live Old Woman Yourself
As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.
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Death Heart Live Memories Oneself
Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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Civilization Human Translation

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