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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.

Nikolai Gogol

A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.
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Famine Poverty Suffering Time Willing
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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Chase Myself Start View Warning
For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.
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Clown Difference Emotion Laughter Lyrics Opinion Public
Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.
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Appearance Count Description End Man Wonder
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
Countless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.
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Desire Emotion Feeling Greatness Himself Man Obedient Shame Terrible
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.
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Exploration Himself Oneself Reason Search Wisdom
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.
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Dreams Himself Life Sleep Strange Wake Up
We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
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God Man Respect Thankful Worth
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Laughter Yourself

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