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Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.

Nikolai Gogol

The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Authority Destruction Town
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
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
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
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
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face
I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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Character Humble Journey Myself Nature Path Selfish
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
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
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
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
Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Company Money People
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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Book Enjoyment Live Nature Peace Pleasant Reading Solitude

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