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They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.

Nikolai Gogol

The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Authority Destruction Town
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
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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Clown Difference Emotion Laughter Lyrics Opinion Public
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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Flash Joy Life Past Sorrow
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Company Money People
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
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
But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: “This is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.
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Future Graduation Life Preparation Youth
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness

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