But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThere are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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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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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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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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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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What is stronger in us – passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?
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Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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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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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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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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Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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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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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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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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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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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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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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