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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

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
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
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Company Money People
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
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
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
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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Clown Difference Emotion Laughter Lyrics Opinion Public
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Authority Destruction Town
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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Exploration Himself Oneself Reason Search Wisdom
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
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 Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil

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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