Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThere are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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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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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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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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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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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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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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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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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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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Countless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.
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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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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don’t leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!
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