It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

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I am who I am and that's who I am

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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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The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle is all overscored by divine fire, that every letter of it cries out, that from everywhere the piercing finger is pointed at it, at this current generation; but the current generation laughs and presumptuously, proudly begins a series of new errors, at which their descendants will also laugh afterwards.

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You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.

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Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.

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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

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

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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.

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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.

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