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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

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
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
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
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
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
Countless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.
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Desire Emotion Feeling Greatness Himself Man Obedient Shame Terrible
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul
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
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
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
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
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
We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
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God Man Respect Thankful Worth
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young
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

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