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Even a bad man is better than a good book.

Maxim Gorky

In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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Carriage Past Yourself
What I’d like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: “Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.
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Better Born Live Man Thankful Yourself
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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Life Pleasure Responsibility Slave Work
Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
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Charity Goodness Humanity Kindness Sorry Wrong
Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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Energy Future Hope Kill Past Present Remember
Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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Born Children Future Mom Thinking
When one loves somebody, everything is clear – where to go, what to do – it all takes care of itself and one doesn’t have to ask anybody about anything.
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Care Love Oneself
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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Age Count Marriage
Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty each and every one of us.
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Bitter Guilty Oneself Search Truth
You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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Blood Drown Sea Truth
Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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Book Learning Reading Remember Yourself
Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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Enemy Mercy Ourselves Past
Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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Healing Soul Truth Wound
Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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Devastation Evidence Man Root
Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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Delight Ourselves Salvation Work
Every new time will give its law.
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Law One Liner Time

Even a bad man is better than a good book.

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