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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 Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Laughter Yourself
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Philosophy Resemble Truth
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
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
Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die.
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Death Murmur Myself Show Tears
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing
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
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young
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
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
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
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity 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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