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Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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

— Nikolai Gogol

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

— Nikolai Gogol

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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 the basis of everything. That's my idea. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

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

— Nikolai Gogol

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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 and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

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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. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

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

— Nikolai Gogol

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We're going to take risks. What has always been will not necessarily always be forever. ↗

— Roberto Goizueta

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Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body wondering if anybody is listening. ↗

— Herbert Gold

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