Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
MAXIM GORKYLet 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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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That’s why we want to be considerate of every man – Who knows what’s in him, why he was born and what he can do?
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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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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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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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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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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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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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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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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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