Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThe 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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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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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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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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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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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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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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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: “This is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.
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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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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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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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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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