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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

The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
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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Appearance Count Description End Man Wonder
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
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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Emotion Existence Lyrics Rank Worth
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
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing
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
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
There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Choice Deep Inspirational Man Passion
There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.
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Character Man Occasion Weakness Willing Woman
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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Chase Myself Start View Warning
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World

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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