"I was not born to amuse the Tsars." — Alexander Pushkin
"I was not born to amuse the Tsars."
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Alexander Pushkin
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31 Quotes by Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin has 31 quotes on this site.
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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a…
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My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
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Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody…
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I loved you; even now I may confess, Some embers of my love their fire retain; But do not let…
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It's a lucky man, a very lucky man, who is committed to what he believes, who has stifled intellectual detachment…
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I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want…
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It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
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I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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To love all ages yield surrender; But to the young it's raptures bring A blessing bountiful and tender- As storms…
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Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.
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In this, our age of infamy Man's choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has…
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More Amuse Quotes
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one of 161 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest;…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
— Helen Gurley Brown
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I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.
— Hillary Clinton
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That one must do some work seriously and must be independent and not merely amuse oneself in life-this our mother…
— Unknown Author
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One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The…
— Susan Sontag
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... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers…
— Maria Montessori
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Religion has become to many merely a means of doing a little charity work, just to amuse them after a…
— Swami Vivekananda
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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes…
— Seneca the Elder
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Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.
— Isaac Asimov
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I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse…
— Aubrey Beardsley
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Don't think you can...know you can! Your human body is the most impressive tool that you will ever own. Even…
— Jeff Hardy
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Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to…
— Joseph de Maistre
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