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We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

And in a very civil fashion did Manilov did so, even going as far as to address the man in the second person plural.

For a loaf is something baked and a nose is something different.

Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.

Woman is in love with the devil.

It seemed that both had lately had a touch of that pain under the waistband which comes of a sedentary life.

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.

Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.

And so the money which to some extent may have saved the situation is spent on various means for bringing about self oblivion

- How dare you, I repeat, In disregard of all decency, call me a goose?
- I spit on your head, Ivan Ivanovich! What are you screaming so for?

Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?

Seek ye not riches, seek but the society of good men.

A quiet room with cockroaches peeping out like prunes from every corner ...

With a true friend one experiences something in the nature of spiritual enjoyment?

You see, wisdom does not come with grey hairs.

The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.

One cannot expect men not to get drunk when there is nothing to do!

The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.

However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.

Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book ...

Despair at not reaching ideal perfection are among the reasons given. Again it is said

Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.

There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.

You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays. The things these scribblers write!

Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die

A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.

I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That's a totally different matter.

Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.

I think that it is one of the most refined joys of this world to interchange thoughts, feelings, and impressions." (H'm!

Every man who has lived in the world and mixed with his fellow men will have remarked something which has remained hidden from the eyes of others;

I shall think soon that what people say is true: every woman is possessed by her own peculiar devil of curiosity

I shall laugh my bitter laugh.

What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.

But yet with all this, although, of course, one may admit this, that and the other, may even ... and after all, where aren't there incongruities?

Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.

How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners ...

In his mind, nothing could be more delightful than to live in solitude, and enjoy the spectacle of nature, and sometimes read some book or other.

We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.

You can always tell a pig by its grunt.

I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.

You can do anything and smash anything in the world with a kopeck.

There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.

He was no stranger to compassion: his heart was open to many good impulses, though his rank often prevented their manifestation.

[P]eople think that the human brain is in the head. Nothing of the sort; it is carried by the wind from the Caspian Sea.

A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.

And meanwhile death was as terrible in a small man as in a great one:

Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views

They christened the child, whereat he wept and made a grimace, as though he foresaw that he was to be a titular councillor. In

Even a stone has its uses, and man who is the most intelligent of all creatures must be of some use, hasn't he?

Would he need to consider my feelings if at any point he should feel minded to blame

I really don't know," the old lady brought out hesitatingly, "you see I've never sold the dead before.

The nose looked at the Major and frowned a little.

How dared you, I repeat, in disregard of all decency, call me a goose?

But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.

In this world, people always find a way of doing what they want

But my very latest discovery made me feel better. I had found that every rooster has his own Spain and he has it under his feathers.

One must keep a store of common sense," said Tchitchikov, "and consult one's common sense at every minute, have a friendly conversation with it.

Goodness, how sad is our Russia!

Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?

They don't listen to me, they don't hear me, they don't see me.

Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.

The more debris there is the more it will show the governor's activity.

Love us dirty, for any one will love us clean.

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

Every one to his taste, one man loves the priest and another the priest's wife, as the proverb says.

The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.

Keep not money, but keep good people's company.

It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.

It is dull in this world, gentlemen!

I am who I am and that's who I am

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 while asleep.

Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty.

There are passions that it is not for man to choose.