Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThere 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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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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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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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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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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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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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.
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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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