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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?

Nikolai Gogol

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
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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Flash Joy Life Past Sorrow
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
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
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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Count Human Master Passion Sea Terrible
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
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
In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.
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Dreams Himself Life Sleep Strange Wake Up
There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Choice Deep Inspirational Man Passion
The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral… Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That’s my idea.
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Age Agriculture Basis Experience Ideas 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
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing

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