Nikolai Gogol Quotes

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• Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
• Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every…
• Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
• In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched…
• We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
• 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…
• Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
• 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…
• At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful and monotonous voice, that the…
• The more debris there is the more it will show the governor's activity.
• I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
• There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
• Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
• 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…
• There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
• The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
• It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
• Keep not money, but keep good people's company.
• Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
• 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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