Beauty works perfect miracles. All inner shortcomings in a beauty, instead of causing repugnance, become somehow extraordinarily attractive; vice itself breathes comeliness in them; but if it were to disappear, then a woman would have to be twenty times more intelligent than a man in order to inspire, if not love, at least respect. Nikolai Gogol
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  2. The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.

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  4. You see, wisdom does not come with grey hairs.

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