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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.

Nikolai Gogol

It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: “This is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.
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Future Graduation Life Preparation Youth
Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Company Money People
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
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
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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Exploration Himself Oneself Reason Search Wisdom
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
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
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
In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.
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Dreams Himself Life Sleep Strange Wake Up
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
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
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
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
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See

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