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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.

Nikolai Gogol

I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That’s a totally different matter.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Bribe Different Kind Matter Plain
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
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
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.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Age Agriculture Basis Experience Ideas Myself
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Authority Destruction Town
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Laughter Yourself
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Philosophy Resemble Truth
I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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Character Humble Journey Myself Nature Path Selfish
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
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Pause Perfection World
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.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Achievement Contrary Power Work
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
What is stronger in us – passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Deep Emotion Feeling Habit Ourselves Passion Strong Violence
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Flash Joy Life Past Sorrow
But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Exploration Himself Oneself Reason Search Wisdom
We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

God Man Respect Thankful Worth

Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.

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