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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.

Nikolai Gogol

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
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
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
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
As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don’t leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!
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Emotional Harsh Human Journey Yourself Youth
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face
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
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity 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
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing
Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die.
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Death Murmur Myself Show Tears
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Bitter Laughter Myself

However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.

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