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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.

Nikolai Gogol

There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
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
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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Appearance Count Description End Man Wonder
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
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
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
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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Clown Difference Emotion Laughter Lyrics Opinion Public
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
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
There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.
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Character Man Occasion Weakness Willing Woman
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
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness

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