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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!

Nikolai Gogol

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing
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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Desire Emotion Feeling Greatness Himself Man Obedient Shame Terrible
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
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
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
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
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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Count Human Master Passion Sea Terrible
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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Beautiful Perspective Thinking Willing
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
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Laughter Yourself

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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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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