It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
NIKOLAI GOGOLAlso, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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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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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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They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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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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Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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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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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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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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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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