Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
NIKOLAI GOGOLPerfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and noble alike, are at first obedient to man and only later on become his terrible masters.
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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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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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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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It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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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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We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
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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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The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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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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