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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

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
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
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
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
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
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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Age Agriculture Basis Experience Ideas Myself
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
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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Beautiful Perspective Thinking 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
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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Dreams Himself Life Sleep Strange Wake Up
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
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
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
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
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
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
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
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
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
Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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Chase Myself Start View Warning
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
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face

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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