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

Nikolai Gogol

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
What is stronger in us – passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?
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Deep Emotion Feeling Habit Ourselves Passion Strong Violence
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
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
There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Choice Deep Inspirational Man Passion
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
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul
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
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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Future Graduation Life Preparation Youth
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Philosophy Resemble Truth
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young
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
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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Exploration Himself Oneself Reason Search Wisdom

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