You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
NIKOLAI GOGOLSteeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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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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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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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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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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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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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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The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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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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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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