## Metadata * Author: [[Nikolai Gogol]] * ASIN: B0053CSR6Y * ISBN: 0679776443 * Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0053CSR6Y ## Highlights Alas! the fat know better than the slim how to handle their affairs in this world. The slim serve mostly on special missions, or else only nominally, and shift about here and there; their existence is somehow too light, airy, and altogether unreliable. Whereas the fat never occupy indirect positions, but always direct ones, and once they sit somewhere, they sit reliably and firmly, so that the position will sooner creak and sag under them than they will fall off of it. — location: [433](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0053CSR6Y&location=433) ^ref-35568 --- Such is the Russian man: strong is his passion for knowing someone at least one rank above himself, and a nodding acquaintance with a count or prince is better to him than any close relations with friends. — location: [523](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0053CSR6Y&location=523) ^ref-51269 --- Wherever in life it may be, whether amongst its tough, coarsely poor, and untidily moldering mean ranks, or its monotonously cold and boringly tidy upper classes, a man will at least once meet with a phenomenon which is unlike anything he has happened to see before, which for once at least awakens in him a feeling unlike those he is fated to feel all his life. — location: [1802](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0053CSR6Y&location=1802) ^ref-29076 --- “black radish, cooked in honey.” — location: [1953](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0053CSR6Y&location=1953) ^ref-716 --- So take with you on your way, as you pass from youth’s tender years into stern, hardening manhood, take with you every humane impulse, do not leave them by the wayside, you will not pick them up later! — location: [2447](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0053CSR6Y&location=2447) ^ref-61176 --- Rinaldo Rinaldini, — location: [3418](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0053CSR6Y&location=3418) ^ref-1269 ---