Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
NIKOLAI GOGOL
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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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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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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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It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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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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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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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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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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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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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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