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

Nikolai Gogol

It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
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
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
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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Education Himself Known Learning Prosperous Thinking
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Company Money People
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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Clown Difference Emotion Laughter Lyrics Opinion Public
Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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Chase Myself Start View Warning
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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Existence People Space Spot World
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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Fate Hero Journey Life Myself Unknown
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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Emotion Existence Lyrics Rank Worth
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See

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