The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral… Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That’s my idea.
NIKOLAI GOGOLIt is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That’s a totally different matter.
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.
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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Countless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.
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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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They’re thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he’ll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
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Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.
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I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
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What is stronger in us – passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?
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