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Nikolai Gogol

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
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
I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That’s a totally different matter.
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Bribe Different Kind Matter Plain
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Choice Deep Inspirational Man Passion
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
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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Exploration Himself Oneself Reason Search Wisdom
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
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Authority Destruction Town
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
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
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
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
There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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Existence People Space Spot World

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