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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?

Nikolai Gogol

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
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
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
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
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
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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Beautiful Perspective Thinking Willing
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Bitter Laughter Myself
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
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
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
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

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