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Men Quotes by Nikolai Gogol
- Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
- 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…
- 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…
- There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
- Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
- There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
- But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.
- Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him…
- 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…
- He who has talent in him must be purer in soul than anyone else. Another will be forgiven much, but to him it will not…
- However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
- 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…
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