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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.

Nikolai Gogol

What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Laughter Yourself
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
Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.
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Achievement Contrary Power Work
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
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
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
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
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
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Philosophy Resemble Truth
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Choice Deep Inspirational Man Passion
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
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

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