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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.

Nikolai Gogol

For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.
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Clown Difference Emotion Laughter Lyrics Opinion Public
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
Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Company Money People
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
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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Flash Joy Life Past Sorrow
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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Death Murmur Myself Show Tears
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
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 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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Character Man Occasion Weakness Willing Woman
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
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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Activity Brain Fortunate Trouble
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Philosophy Resemble Truth
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil
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
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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Book Enjoyment Live Nature Peace Pleasant Reading Solitude
We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
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God Man Respect Thankful Worth

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