Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
NIKOLAI GOGOLOf course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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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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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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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: “This is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.
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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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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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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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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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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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