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

Maxim Gorky

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
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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Goal Myself Person Pursue Society Truth
The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
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Drive Organism Revolution Skin
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
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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Dog Kill Master Oneself
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!
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Believe Goodness Man Myself Teaching
Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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Act Hungry Satisfaction
Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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Devastation Evidence Man Root
Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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Delight Ourselves Salvation Work
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
Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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Bad Better Book Goodness Man
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
Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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Castle Live Publish Reading Rent Writing
All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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Human Rough Soul
Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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Angry One Liner Quick
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
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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Age Count Marriage
In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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Carriage Past Yourself
You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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Blood Drown Sea Truth
The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.
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Art Goodness Quality Soul Success
Every new time will give its law.
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Law One Liner Time
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.
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Action Feeling Grave Kill Myself Word
The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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Beautiful English Guilty Language Word
Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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Book Credit Goodness Myself
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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Past Yourself
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
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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Better Friendship Future Himself Live Man Positivity

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