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For contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation.

Nikolai Gogol

There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
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
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
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
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
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Philosophy Resemble Truth
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing
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
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
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
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
For contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation.
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Creation Judgment Pearl Photograph Recognition
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness

For contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation.

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For contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation.

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