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People think that the human brain is in the head. Nothing of the sort; it is carried by the wind from the Caspian Sea.

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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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They insist that an author should write in the strictest, purest and noblest language: in short, they expect the Russian language to drop from the clouds, already refined, and that it should come naturally to the lips, so that all they have to do is to open their mouth and stick out their tongue. It goes without saying, of course, that the feminine half of the human species is very wise; but it must be confessed that our respected readers are even wiser.

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Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Gogol
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Born: March 31, 1809
Died: March 4, 1852 (aged 42)
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