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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

Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
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
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Laughter Yourself
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
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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Creation Judgment Pearl Photograph Recognition
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Bitter Laughter Myself
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
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
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
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
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul
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

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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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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