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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.

Maxim Gorky

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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Art Cultivation Force Influence Man Science Success
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
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
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
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
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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Past Yourself
Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
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Class Force Growth Intellectual
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
Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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Healing Soul Truth Wound
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
Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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Book Credit Goodness Myself
Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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Angry One Liner Quick
Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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Delight Ourselves Salvation Work
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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Day Jump Marriage Remember Woman Yourself
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
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

In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.

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