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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.

Nikolai Gogol

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
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
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
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
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
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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Character Man Occasion Weakness Willing Woman
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
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Philosophy Resemble Truth
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
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
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
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul

Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.

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