I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That’s a totally different matter.
NIKOLAI GOGOLSteeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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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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Countless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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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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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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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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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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