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.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThe more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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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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But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.
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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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There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.
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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die.
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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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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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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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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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