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I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.

Nikolai Gogol

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
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul
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
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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Flash Joy Life Past Sorrow
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Laughter Yourself
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
For contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation.
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Creation Judgment Pearl Photograph Recognition
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young
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
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
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Authority Destruction Town
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage

I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.

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