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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.

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
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Company Money People
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil
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
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Intelligence Man Stupidity
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
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
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
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
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
We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
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God Man Respect Thankful Worth

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