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Nikolai Gogol

Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Company Money People
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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Book Enjoyment Live Nature Peace Pleasant Reading Solitude
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Bitter Laughter Myself
As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don’t leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!
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Emotional Harsh Human Journey Yourself Youth
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
Sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.
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Activity Brain Fortunate Trouble
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
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
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
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
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
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
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
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

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