"Man is such a wondrous being that it……" — Nikolai Gogol
"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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Nikolai Gogol
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54 Quotes by Nikolai Gogol
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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as…
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he…
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We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than…
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The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more…
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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good…
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At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful…
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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor's activity.
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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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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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