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

Nikolai Gogol

Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die.
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Death Murmur Myself Show Tears
Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.
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Achievement Contrary Power Work
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul
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
But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: “This is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.
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Future Graduation Life Preparation Youth
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Bitter Laughter Myself
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Intelligence Man Stupidity
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
They’re thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he’ll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
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Education Himself Known Learning Prosperous Thinking
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
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
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral… Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That’s my idea.
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Age Agriculture Basis Experience Ideas Myself

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

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