Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
NIKOLAI GOGOLThey don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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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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There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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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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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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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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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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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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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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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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