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.
NIKOLAI GOGOLA word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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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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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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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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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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it’s not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments. I must exhibit life full-face, not discuss life.
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For contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation.
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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.
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