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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

The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil
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
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
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Laughter Yourself
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
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
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
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
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
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
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
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
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

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