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

Nikolai Gogol

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
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
Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Company Money People
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
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
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Authority Destruction Town
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Laughter Yourself
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Philosophy Resemble Truth
There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.
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Emotion Existence Lyrics Rank Worth
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
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
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young
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

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

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