One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.
Maxim GorkyWhat can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that's all there is to it.
Maxim GorkyThe intelligentsia ...was kept busy embroidering white stitches on the philosophical and ecclesiastical vestments of the bourgeoisie - that old and filthy fabric besmeared with the blood of toiling masses.
Maxim Gorky