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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.

Nikolai Gogol

We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
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
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
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God Man Respect Thankful Worth
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
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
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
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
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
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
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
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness

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