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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

How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
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
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young
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
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
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
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
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
Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Company Money People
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 certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
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
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
We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
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God Man Respect Thankful Worth

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