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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.

Nikolai Gogol

Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Company Money People
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Authority Destruction Town
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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Emotion Existence Lyrics Rank Worth
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face
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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Achievement Contrary Power Work
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
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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Existence People Space Spot World
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Bitter Laughter Myself
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Intelligence Man Stupidity
The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral… Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That’s my idea.
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Age Agriculture Basis Experience Ideas Myself
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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Bribe Different Kind Matter Plain

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