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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

I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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Book Enjoyment Live Nature Peace Pleasant Reading Solitude
Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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Chase Myself Start View Warning
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
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
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
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
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
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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Death Murmur Myself Show Tears
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Intelligence Man Stupidity
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Authority Destruction Town
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Philosophy Resemble Truth
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Bitter Laughter Myself
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
There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Choice Deep Inspirational Man Passion
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
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
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Laughter Yourself
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don’t leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!
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Emotional Harsh Human Journey Yourself Youth
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
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
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

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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