One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
MAXIM GORKYJail doesn’t teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
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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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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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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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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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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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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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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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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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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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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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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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