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Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?

Maxim Gorky

One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
MAXIM GORKY

Man Praise Whole Woman Word
The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
MAXIM GORKY

Beautiful English Guilty Language Word
Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
MAXIM GORKY

Class Force Growth Intellectual
Our most merciless enemy is our past.
MAXIM GORKY

Enemy Mercy Ourselves Past
All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I’ve even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
MAXIM GORKY

Earth Heaven People Pilgrimage
God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
MAXIM GORKY

Complex Feeling Form God Individual Link Organization Social
In war it is necessary to kill as many people as possible — such is the cynical logic of war. Brutality in a fight is unavoidable; have you seen how cruelly children fight in the streets?
MAXIM GORKY

Avoid Children Cruelty Fight Necessary People War
Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
MAXIM GORKY

Book Learning Reading Remember Yourself
To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
MAXIM GORKY

Home Land Man Old Place Warm
Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
MAXIM GORKY

Born Children Future Mom Thinking
Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
MAXIM GORKY

Devastation Evidence Man Root
With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
MAXIM GORKY

Brother Himself Live Money Person
Even a bad man is better than a good book.
MAXIM GORKY

Bad Better Book Goodness Man
You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
MAXIM GORKY

Better Children Way Writing
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
MAXIM GORKY

Big Hands Happiness Hold Precious Small
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
MAXIM GORKY

Past Yourself

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