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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

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
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Bitter Laughter Myself
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young
There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.
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Character Man Occasion Weakness Willing Woman
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
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil
A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.
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Famine Poverty Suffering Time Willing
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Authority Destruction Town
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Choice Deep Inspirational Man Passion
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
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
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
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
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
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home 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
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
I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.
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Fate Hero Journey Life Myself Unknown
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Philosophy Resemble Truth
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
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Laughter Yourself

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