Even a bad man is better than a good book.
MAXIM GORKYA good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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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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Every new time will give its law.
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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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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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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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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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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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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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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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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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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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