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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

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
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
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
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
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
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Bitter Laughter Myself
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
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
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
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
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
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
it’s not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments. I must exhibit life full-face, not discuss life.
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Art Discussion Home Image Job Life Preach

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