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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

It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
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
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Laughter Yourself
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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Count Human Master Passion Sea Terrible
Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Company Money People
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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Achievement Contrary Power Work
There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Choice Deep Inspirational Man Passion
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
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
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Philosophy Resemble Truth
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Bitter Laughter Myself
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government

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