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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

Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face
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
Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Company Money People
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 more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Authority Destruction Town
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
Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.
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Appearance Count Description End Man Wonder
I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.
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Fate Hero Journey Life Myself Unknown
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
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
I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That’s a totally different matter.
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Bribe Different Kind Matter Plain
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
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
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
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young
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
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
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
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
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
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original

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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