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

Nikolai Gogol

There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
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
There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Choice Deep Inspirational Man Passion
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
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
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
Countless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.
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Desire Emotion Feeling Greatness Himself Man Obedient Shame Terrible
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing
Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and noble alike, are at first obedient to man and only later on become his terrible masters.
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Count Human Master Passion Sea Terrible
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
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
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
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Authority Destruction Town

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