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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

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
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
Sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.
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Activity Brain Fortunate Trouble
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Choice Deep Inspirational Man Passion
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Philosophy Resemble Truth
Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Company Money People
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
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
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and noble alike, are at first obedient to man and only later on become his terrible masters.
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Count Human Master Passion Sea Terrible
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Authority Destruction Town

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