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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.

Alexander Pushkin

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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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Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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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 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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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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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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Then came a moment of renaissance, I looked up – you again are there, A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that`s beautiful and rare.
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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
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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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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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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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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