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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.
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God Man Respect Thankful Worth
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Philosophy Resemble Truth
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
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
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
They’re thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he’ll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
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Education Himself Known Learning Prosperous Thinking
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.
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Clown Difference Emotion Laughter Lyrics Opinion Public
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
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
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
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash

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