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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.

Nikolai Gogol

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 Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
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
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
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing
There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Choice Deep Inspirational Man Passion
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Authority Destruction Town
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
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection 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
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face
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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Appearance Count Description End Man Wonder
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash

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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