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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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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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Beautiful Perspective Thinking Willing
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
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
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil
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
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul
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
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
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
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
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
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
They’re thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he’ll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
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Education Himself Known Learning Prosperous Thinking

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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