Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
NIKOLAI GOGOLWhat are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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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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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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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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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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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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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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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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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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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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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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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die.
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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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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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