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.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThe longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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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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I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: “This is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.
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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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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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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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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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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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For contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation.
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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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