It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
NIKOLAI GOGOLI saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.
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Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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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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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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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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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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