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

Nikolai Gogol

They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
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
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
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
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
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
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young
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 more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
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
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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Famine Poverty Suffering Time Willing
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil
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

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