"This is an ugly and mean world, and……" — Sholom Aleichem
"This is an ugly and mean world, and only to spite it we mustn't weep. If you want to know, this is the constant source of my good spirit, of my humor. Not to cry, out of spite, only to laugh out of spite, only to laugh."
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Sholom Aleichem
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31 Quotes by Sholom Aleichem
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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for…
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A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.
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Gossip is nature's telephone.
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The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.
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They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence.
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A cantor, when he starts singing, it's like rain - once it starts, it's hard to stop.
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A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument.
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Ah, how many luxuries has the good God prepared for his Jewish children.
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Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose.
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No one knows whom the shoe pinches - no one.
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You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew.
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