How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThere 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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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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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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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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Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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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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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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They’re thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he’ll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
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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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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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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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Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and noble alike, are at first obedient to man and only later on become his terrible masters.
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