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Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning. - Mikhail Lermontov
" "Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.
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About Mikhail Lermontov
Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (October 15, 1814 – July 27, 1841) was a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death in 1837 and the greatest figure in Russian Romanticism. His influence on later Russian literature is still felt in modern times, not only through his poetry, but also through his prose, which founded the tradition of the Russian psychological novel.
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Pen Names:
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Ламвер
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Гр. Диарбекир
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Lerma
Native Name:
Михаилъ Юрьевичъ Лермонтовъ
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Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов
Alternative Names:
Michail Jur'evič Lermontov
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Mikhail I︠U︡rʹevich Lermontov
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Михаи́л Ю́рьевич Ле́рмонтов
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Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov
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Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov
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Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov
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The history of a man's soul, even the pettiest soul, is hardly less interesting and useful than the history of a whole people; especially when the former is the result of the observations of a mature mind upon itself, and has been written without any egotistical desire of arousing sympathy or astonishment. Rousseau's Confessions has precisely this defect – he read it to his friends.
The public of this country is so youthful, not to say simple-minded, that it cannot understand the meaning of a fable unless the moral is set forth at the end. Unable to see a joke, insensible to irony, it has, in a word, been badly brought up. It has not yet learned that in a decent book, as in decent society, open invective can have no place; that our present-day civilisation has invented a keener weapon, none the less deadly for being almost invisible, which, under the cloak of flattery, strikes with sure and irresistible effect.
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