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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.

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
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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Chase Myself Start View Warning
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
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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Clown Difference Emotion Laughter Lyrics Opinion Public
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
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Laughter Yourself
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young
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
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That’s a totally different matter.
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Bribe Different Kind Matter Plain
Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die.
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Death Murmur Myself Show Tears
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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Beautiful Perspective Thinking Willing

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