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 GORKYIt 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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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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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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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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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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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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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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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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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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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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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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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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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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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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Every new time will give its law.
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