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The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.

Nikolai Gogol

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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Flash Joy Life Past Sorrow
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
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face
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
There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.
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Emotion Existence Lyrics Rank Worth
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.
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Character Man Occasion Weakness Willing Woman
I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.
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Fate Hero Journey Life Myself Unknown
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Bitter Laughter Myself
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
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
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Authority Destruction Town
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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Beautiful Perspective Thinking Willing

The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.

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