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I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.

Nikolai Gogol

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
Sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.
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Activity Brain Fortunate Trouble
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
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
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
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
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing
For contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation.
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Creation Judgment Pearl Photograph Recognition
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
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
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World

I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.

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