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Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.

Nikolai Gogol

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
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
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
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
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
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
Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Company Money People
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?
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Deep Emotion Feeling Habit Ourselves Passion Strong Violence
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
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
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young
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
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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