What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
NIKOLAI GOGOLWe ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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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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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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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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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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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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Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and noble alike, are at first obedient to man and only later on become his terrible masters.
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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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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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Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.
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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.
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