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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.

Nikolai Gogol

Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
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
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
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face
it’s not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments. I must exhibit life full-face, not discuss life.
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Art Discussion Home Image Job Life Preach
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 am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
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
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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Deep Emotion Feeling Habit Ourselves Passion Strong Violence
Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Company Money People
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
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

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