An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
MAXIM GORKYLies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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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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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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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?
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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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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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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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The higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure that this is also a truth.
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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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