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

Nikolai Gogol

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

Enough Fools Intelligence Man Stupidity
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
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
Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Company Money People
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
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Laughter Yourself
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
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Bitter Laughter Myself
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
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
Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and noble alike, are at first obedient to man and only later on become his terrible masters.
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Count Human Master Passion Sea Terrible
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Philosophy Resemble Truth
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original

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