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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
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
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
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Bitter Laughter Myself
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
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
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
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
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
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
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.
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Achievement Contrary Power Work
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

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