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Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.

Nikolai Gogol

I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.
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Fate Hero Journey Life Myself Unknown
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.
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Character Man Occasion Weakness Willing Woman
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul
Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Company Money People
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Authority Destruction Town
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
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
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
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
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil

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