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

Maxim Gorky

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
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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Past Yourself
Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
MAXIM GORKY

Avoid Carry Function Politics Public
To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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Home Land Man Old Place Warm
You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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Hide Meaning Philosophy 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
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
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
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
The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
MAXIM GORKY

Drive Organism Revolution Skin
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
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
Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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Born Children Future Mom Thinking
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
An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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Brain Honesty Idiot Man Right

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

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