A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
NIKOLAI GOGOLAlso, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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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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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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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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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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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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It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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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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Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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For contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation.
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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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