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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.

Nikolai Gogol

Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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Chase Myself Start View Warning
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
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Authority Destruction Town
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
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Intelligence Man Stupidity
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
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
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
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Laughter Yourself
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage

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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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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