Jail doesn’t teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!
MAXIM GORKYAll human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
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It is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.
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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.
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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.
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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.
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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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