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

Nikolai Gogol

The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face
There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Choice Deep Inspirational Man Passion
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 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
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
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
We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
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God Man Respect Thankful Worth
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
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
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Laughter 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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Exploration Himself Oneself Reason Search Wisdom
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

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