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1847–1912 Poland
Bolesław Prus was the pen-name of Aleksander Głowacki (August 20, 1847 – May 19, 1912), a Polish journalist and novelist known as the leading representative of realism in 19th-century Polish literature.
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Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.
Folly is as great as the sea, it will compass anything.
A life whose beginning we do not remember, and whose end we do not know.
Money really is a great power, only one must know how to use it.
For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.
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.
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.
Perfect the Will, the Mind, Feeling, their corporeal organs and their material tools; be useful to yourselves, to your own ones, and to others; and Happiness, insofar as it exists on this earth, will come of itself.
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...
‘There are two men in me,’ he thought, ‘one quite sensible, the other a lunatic. But I am not concerned with that any longer... What shall I do, though, if the sensible man wins?’
Perfect your Will, Mind, and Feeling, their corporal organs, and their material tools; be useful to yourselves, to your own ones, and to others, and Happiness, insofar as it exists on this earth, will come of itself.
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