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

Nikolai Gogol

It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
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
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
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
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing
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
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Authority Destruction Town
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
But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.
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Exploration Himself Oneself Reason Search Wisdom
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
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

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

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