Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
NIKOLAI GOGOLSteeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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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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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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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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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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Countless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.
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But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: “This is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.
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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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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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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.
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