The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
NIKOLAI GOGOLDon’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral… Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That’s my idea.
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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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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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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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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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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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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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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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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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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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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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