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

Nikolai Gogol

There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.
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Character Man Occasion Weakness Willing Woman
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
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
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
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Philosophy Resemble Truth
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
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
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die.
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Death Murmur Myself Show Tears
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face

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

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