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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!

Nikolai Gogol

There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.
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Emotion Existence Lyrics Rank Worth
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
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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Chase Myself Start View Warning
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
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
There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Choice Deep Inspirational Man Passion
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing
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
But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: “This is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.
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Future Graduation Life Preparation Youth
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
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash

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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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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