They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
NIKOLAI GOGOLOf course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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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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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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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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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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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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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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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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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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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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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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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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