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

Nikolai Gogol

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
I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That’s a totally different matter.
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Bribe Different Kind Matter Plain
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
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Laughter Yourself
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
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
I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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Character Humble Journey Myself Nature Path Selfish
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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Beautiful Perspective Thinking Willing
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 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
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original

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