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

Nikolai Gogol

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
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
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
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
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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Chase Myself Start View Warning
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
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
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
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
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
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
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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Emotion Existence Lyrics Rank Worth
The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral… Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That’s my idea.
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Age Agriculture Basis Experience Ideas Myself
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself

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