The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
NIKOLAI GOGOLEverything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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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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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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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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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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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.
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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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Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.
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I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.
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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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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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