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

Nikolai Gogol

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
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Company Money People
A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.
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Famine Poverty Suffering Time Willing
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
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.
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Emotion Existence Lyrics Rank Worth
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
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
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing
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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Bribe Different Kind Matter Plain
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
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
There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Choice Deep Inspirational Man Passion

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