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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Maxim Gorky

Jail doesn’t teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!
MAXIM GORKY

Believe Goodness Man Myself Teaching
Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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Devastation Evidence Man Root
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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Bad Brain Goodness Head Man Stupidity
All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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Human Rough Soul
Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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Freedom Lying Man Master Religion
Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
MAXIM GORKY

Book Learning Reading Remember Yourself
An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.
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Artist Convince Form Impression Man Subjective
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
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.
MAXIM GORKY

Action Feeling Grave Kill Myself Word
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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Acceptance Disgusting Earth Himself Misery
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?
MAXIM GORKY

Better Friendship Future Himself Live Man Positivity
In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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Carriage Past Yourself
With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
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Brother Himself Live Money Person
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
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
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.
MAXIM GORKY

Better Born Live Man Thankful Yourself

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

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