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What is stronger in us – passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?

Nikolai Gogol

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
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Laughter Yourself
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
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
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
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
There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Choice Deep Inspirational Man Passion
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
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil

What is stronger in us – passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?

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What is stronger in us – passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?

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