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.
MAXIM GORKYTo an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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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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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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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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When one loves somebody, everything is clear – where to go, what to do – it all takes care of itself and one doesn’t have to ask anybody about anything.
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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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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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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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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
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