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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

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

Clown Difference Emotion Laughter Lyrics Opinion Public
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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Desire Emotion Feeling Greatness Himself Man Obedient Shame Terrible
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
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
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Company Money People
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
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
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
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
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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Book Enjoyment Live Nature Peace Pleasant Reading Solitude
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young

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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