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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.

Nikolai Gogol

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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Education Himself Known Learning Prosperous Thinking
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
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
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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Beautiful Perspective Thinking Willing
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Bitter Laughter Myself
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
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
it’s not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments. I must exhibit life full-face, not discuss life.
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Art Discussion Home Image Job Life Preach
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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Character Humble Journey Myself Nature Path Selfish
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
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
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
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
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness

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