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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.

Nikolai Gogol

Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Choice Deep Inspirational Man Passion
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing
In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.
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Dreams Himself Life Sleep Strange Wake Up
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
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil
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
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
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
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
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
For contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation.
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Creation Judgment Pearl Photograph Recognition

How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.

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