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It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.

Nikolai Gogol

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
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
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Bitter Laughter Myself
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face
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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Creation Judgment Pearl Photograph Recognition
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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Dreams Himself Life Sleep Strange Wake Up
I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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Character Humble Journey Myself Nature Path Selfish
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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Beautiful Perspective Thinking Willing
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul
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
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and noble alike, are at first obedient to man and only later on become his terrible masters.
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Count Human Master Passion Sea Terrible

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