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

Nikolai Gogol

We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

God Man Respect Thankful Worth
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
As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don’t leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!
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Emotional Harsh Human Journey Yourself Youth
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
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
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 shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Bitter Laughter Myself
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
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
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
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
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
NIKOLAI GOGOL

Laughter Yourself

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