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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.

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
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
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
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
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
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
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
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
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
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
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
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

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