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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.

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
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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Famine Poverty Suffering Time Willing
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Company Money People
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
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
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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Existence People Space Spot World
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul
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
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Authority Destruction Town
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
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
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
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

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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