Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
NIKOLAI GOGOLDon’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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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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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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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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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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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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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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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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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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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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