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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

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
Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Company Money People
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
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Laughter Yourself
They’re thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he’ll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
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Education Himself Known Learning Prosperous Thinking
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
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
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul
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
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
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage

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