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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

Nikolai Gogol

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
Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.
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Appearance Count Description End Man Wonder
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
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
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul
Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Company Money People
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Bitter Laughter Myself
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
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil
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
We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
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God Man Respect Thankful Worth
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

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