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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

A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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Book Enjoyment Live Nature Peace Pleasant Reading Solitude
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
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
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
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
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.
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Appearance Count Description End Man Wonder
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Laughter Yourself
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Philosophy Resemble Truth

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