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But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.

Nikolai Gogol

What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Laughter Yourself
Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Company Money People
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
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
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
Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die.
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Death Murmur Myself Show Tears
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
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
As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don’t leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!
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Emotional Harsh Human Journey Yourself Youth
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
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul

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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