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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

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
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
I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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Character Humble Journey Myself Nature Path Selfish
Sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.
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Activity Brain Fortunate Trouble
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Authority Destruction Town
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil
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
I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.
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Fate Hero Journey Life Myself Unknown
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
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Philosophy Resemble Truth
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing
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
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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Book Enjoyment Live Nature Peace Pleasant Reading Solitude

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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