The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
NIKOLAI GOGOLIt’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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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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It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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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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I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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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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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.
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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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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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There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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