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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

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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Flash Joy Life Past Sorrow
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face
What is stronger in us – passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?
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Deep Emotion Feeling Habit Ourselves Passion Strong Violence
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
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
In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.
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Dreams Himself Life Sleep Strange Wake Up
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
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
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Authority Destruction Town
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
Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Company Money People
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil
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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Famine Poverty Suffering Time Willing
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Laughter Yourself

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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