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Bolesław Prus quotes
A life whose beginning we do not remember, and whose end we do not know.
Bolesław Prus
Folly is as great as the sea, it will compass anything.
Bolesław Prus
Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.
Bolesław Prus
Your true Pole starts to sweat at the second decimal place, at the fifth he runs a temperature, and at the seventh has a stroke...
Bolesław Prus
There are neither graves nor death in Nature; there are various forms of existence, some of which enable us to be chemists, others only chemical substances.
Bolesław Prus
Money really is a great power, only one must know how to use it.
Bolesław Prus
Don't count on luck. If it doesn't come - it won't disappoint you. If it comes - it may supriese you.
Bolesław Prus
And is there no war on today? It is the weapons that have changed, that's all. Instead of an axe or scythe or scimitar, they fight with roubles.
Bolesław Prus
In all of nature, a male belongs to a female that he fancies and who fancies him. And so among the animals there are no idiots. But with us!... I'm a Jew, so I musn't love a Christian woman... He's a merchant, so he's got no right to a countess... And you who've got no money, you've no rights to any woman at all...
Bolesław Prus