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.
NIKOLAI GOGOLA time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.
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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don’t leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!
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In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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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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There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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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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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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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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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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