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A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.

Nikolai Gogol

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
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
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
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
For contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation.
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Creation Judgment Pearl Photograph Recognition
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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Existence People Space Spot World
it’s not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments. I must exhibit life full-face, not discuss life.
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Art Discussion Home Image Job Life Preach
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Authority Destruction Town
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Company Money People
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Laughter Yourself
There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Choice Deep Inspirational Man Passion

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