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

Nikolai Gogol

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
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
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
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
it’s not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments. I must exhibit life full-face, not discuss life.
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Art Discussion Home Image Job Life Preach
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
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
There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Choice Deep Inspirational Man Passion
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
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
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
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
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
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Company Money People

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