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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Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.
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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.
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For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.
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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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Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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it’s not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments. I must exhibit life full-face, not discuss life.
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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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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The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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