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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

Nikolai Gogol

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
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
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
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
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
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
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
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
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 Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

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