However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
NIKOLAI GOGOLCountless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.
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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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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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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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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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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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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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Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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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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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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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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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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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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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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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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