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Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.

Nikolai Gogol

The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Authority Destruction Town
it’s not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments. I must exhibit life full-face, not discuss life.
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Art Discussion Home Image Job Life Preach
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Philosophy Resemble Truth
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
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
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
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
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
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
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Bitter Laughter Myself
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
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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Future Graduation Life Preparation Youth
The 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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Age Agriculture Basis Experience Ideas Myself
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing

Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.

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Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.

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