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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.

Nikolai Gogol

But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.
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Exploration Himself Oneself Reason Search Wisdom
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil
The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral… Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That’s my idea.
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Age Agriculture Basis Experience Ideas Myself
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
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 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
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
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
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
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 certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
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
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Philosophy Resemble Truth
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right

I shall laugh my bitter laugh.

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