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.
NIKOLAI GOGOLBut 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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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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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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It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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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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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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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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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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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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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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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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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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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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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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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.
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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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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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Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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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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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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