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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

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
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Authority Destruction Town
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face
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
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
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral… Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That’s my idea.
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Age Agriculture Basis Experience Ideas Myself
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Company Money People
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
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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Deep Emotion Feeling Habit Ourselves Passion Strong Violence
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Philosophy Resemble Truth

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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