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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.

Maxim Gorky

The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
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Drive Organism Revolution Skin
The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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Beautiful English Guilty Language Word
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.
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Complex Feeling Form God Individual Link Organization Social
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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Bush Garden Goodness Peace Quiet
When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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Easy Oneself Quick Stupidity
Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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Human Material Natural Process
Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.
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Easy Silence Simplicity Talk Terrible
Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
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Man Reading Sanity Thinking Truth
Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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Book Credit Goodness Myself
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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Past Yourself
What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it.
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Dog Kill Master Oneself
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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Law Legal Muscle Training Walk
When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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Boredom Event Grief Life Welcome
One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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Man Praise Whole Woman Word
Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
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Avoid Carry Function Politics Public
Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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Healing Soul Truth Wound
You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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Better Children Way Writing
Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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Contemporary Drink 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.
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Big Hands Happiness Hold Precious Small
The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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Bitter Creature Human Hungry Life Taste
We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.
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Action Feeling Grave Kill Myself Word
All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I’ve even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
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Earth Heaven People Pilgrimage
Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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Delight Ourselves Salvation Work
All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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Human Rough Soul
An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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Brain Honesty Idiot Man Right
We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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Beautiful Dreams Unknown Vision World
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?
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Avoid Children Cruelty Fight Necessary People War

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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