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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

Nikolai Gogol

A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing
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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God Man Respect Thankful Worth
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Intelligence Man Stupidity
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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Character Man Occasion Weakness Willing Woman
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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Bribe Different Kind Matter Plain
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Authority Destruction Town
I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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Character Humble Journey Myself Nature Path Selfish
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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Achievement Contrary Power Work
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
For 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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Creation Judgment Pearl Photograph Recognition
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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Death Murmur Myself Show Tears
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
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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Exploration Himself Oneself Reason Search Wisdom

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