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We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.

Nikolai Gogol

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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Exploration Himself Oneself Reason Search Wisdom
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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Character Humble Journey Myself Nature Path Selfish
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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Age Agriculture Basis Experience Ideas Myself
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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Emotional Harsh Human Journey Yourself Youth
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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Beautiful Perspective Thinking Willing
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Authority Destruction Town
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
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
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
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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Deep Emotion Feeling Habit Ourselves Passion Strong Violence
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
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
They’re thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he’ll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
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Education Himself Known Learning Prosperous Thinking
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
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
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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Activity Brain Fortunate Trouble
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
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God Man Respect Thankful Worth
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing
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
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul

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