Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
NIKOLAI GOGOLFor 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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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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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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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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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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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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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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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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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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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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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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