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«Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.»
Author: Alexander Herzen
«Strong drink stupefies a man and makes it possible for him to forget; it gives him an artificial cheeriness, an artificial excitement; and the pleasure of this state is increased by the low level of civilization and the narrow empty life to which the»
«Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on»
«Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.»
Author: Alexander Herzen
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boatman, boatmen, casts, How to fish, mingling, muddied, muddier, muddy, pond
«Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price.»
«You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.»
«We could hardly believe that after so many ordeals, after all the trials of modern skepticism, there was still so much left in our souls to destroy.»
«Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.»
«Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically -- while simulating a triumphant march forward -- than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?»
Author: Alexander Herzen
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Houses of Parliament, parliament, simulate, simulated, simulating, stand still
«No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.»
Author: Alexander Herzen
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