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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.

Nikolai Gogol

Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
What is stronger in us – passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?
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Deep Emotion Feeling Habit Ourselves Passion Strong Violence
Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Company Money People
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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Flash Joy Life Past Sorrow
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
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
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
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Choice Deep Inspirational Man Passion
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 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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