Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
NIKOLAI GOGOLAlso, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don’t leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!
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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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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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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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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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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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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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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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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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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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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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