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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.

Nikolai Gogol

The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Bitter Laughter Myself
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
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
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
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Laughter Yourself
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
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
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
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
There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Choice Deep Inspirational Man Passion
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
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
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
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
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Philosophy Resemble Truth
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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Flash Joy Life Past Sorrow
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
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
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
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
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.
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Character Man Occasion Weakness Willing Woman

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