Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
NIKOLAI GOGOLEverywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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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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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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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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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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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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Sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.
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I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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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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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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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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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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It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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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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There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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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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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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