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Countless 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.

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
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
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
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
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
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
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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Beautiful Perspective Thinking Willing
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
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
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
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
In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.
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Dreams Himself Life Sleep Strange Wake Up
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
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
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Bitter Laughter Myself
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
Countless 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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Desire Emotion Feeling Greatness Himself Man Obedient Shame Terrible
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil
There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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Existence People Space Spot World
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Philosophy Resemble Truth
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
it’s not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments. I must exhibit life full-face, not discuss life.
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Art Discussion Home Image Job Life Preach
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness

Countless 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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