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But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.

Nikolai Gogol

They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Listening Myself See
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
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face
As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don’t leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!
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Emotional Harsh Human Journey Yourself Youth
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Authority Destruction Town
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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Book Enjoyment Live Nature Peace Pleasant Reading Solitude
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Bitter Laughter Myself
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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Desire Emotion Feeling Greatness Himself Man Obedient Shame Terrible
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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Future Graduation Life Preparation Youth
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
I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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Character Humble Journey Myself Nature Path Selfish
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Home Yourself

But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.

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