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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.

Nikolai Gogol

Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face
Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and noble alike, are at first obedient to man and only later on become his terrible masters.
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Count Human Master Passion Sea Terrible
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
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don’t leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!
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Emotional Harsh Human Journey Yourself Youth
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young
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
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Bitter Laughter Myself
Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.
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Achievement Contrary Power Work
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Authority Destruction Town
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
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

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