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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.

Nikolai Gogol

I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.
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Fate Hero Journey Life Myself Unknown
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
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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Beautiful Perspective Thinking Willing
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Laughter Yourself
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Bitter Laughter Myself
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
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
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
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
A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.
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Famine Poverty Suffering Time Willing
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash

I shall laugh my bitter laugh.

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