Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThey’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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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at 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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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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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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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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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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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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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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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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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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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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