Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
NIKOLAI GOGOLKeep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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What is stronger in us – passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?
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I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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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 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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They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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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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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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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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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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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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