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Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.

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
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
There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Choice Deep Inspirational Man Passion
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
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 am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Bitter Laughter Myself
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
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
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
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
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
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World

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