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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.

Nikolai Gogol

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
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
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.
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Appearance Count Description End Man Wonder
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
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
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Laughter Yourself
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
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
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
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
There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Choice Deep Inspirational Man Passion
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
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

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