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 GOGOLAs 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!
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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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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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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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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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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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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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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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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It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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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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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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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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