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

Nikolai Gogol

The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
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
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
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
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Company Money People
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
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
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Bitter Laughter Myself
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
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
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
For contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation.
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Creation Judgment Pearl Photograph Recognition
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing

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