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A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.

Nikolai Gogol

I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Choice Deep Inspirational Man Passion
What is stronger in us – passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?
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Deep Emotion Feeling Habit Ourselves Passion Strong Violence
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
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
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
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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Activity Brain Fortunate Trouble
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Authority Destruction Town
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
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Intelligence Man Stupidity
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
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

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