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When Abraham Lincoln was murde...

When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage This convinced Matthew There was still hope for America.

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Happiness is surely the best t...

Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.

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The most interesting persons a...

The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning.

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Truth is what every man sees l...

Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.

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One of the penalties of being ...

One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.

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A critic is a gong at a railro...

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

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Religion is an attempt, a nobl...

Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.

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Any man worth his salt has by ...

Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.

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There is no mistaking a real b...

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure it is an experience of great social import. Even as the tranced swain, the booklover yearns to tell others of his bliss. He writes letters about it, adds it to the postscript of all manner of communications, intrudes it into telephone messages, and insists on his friends writing down the title of the find. Like the simple-hearted betrothed, once certain of his conquest

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Never write up your diary on t...

Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.

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There is indeed a heaven on th...

There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.

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Blessed is he who has never be...

Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude.

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America is still a government ...

America is still a government of the naive, for the naive, and by the naive. He who does not know this, nor relish it, has no inkling of the nature of his country.

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The man who never in his life ...

The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate.

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The evening papers print what ...

The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.

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Perhaps this is an age when me...

Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare.

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Truth and Beauty (perhaps Keat...

Truth and Beauty (perhaps Keats was wrong in identifying them: perhaps they have the relation of Wit and Humour, or Rain and Rainbow) are of interest only to hungry people. There are several kinds of hunger. If Socrates, Spinoza, and Santayana had had free access to a midnight icebox we would never have heard of them. Shall I be ashamed of my little mewing truths?... I ask to be forgiven: they are such tiny ones.

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The world, in its sheer exuber...

The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask him to autograph books.

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Beware of the conversationalis...

Beware of the conversationalist who adds 'in other words.' He is merely starting afresh.

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The unluckiest insolvent in th...

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....