Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThere are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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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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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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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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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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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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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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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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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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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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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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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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Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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