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Our manners, our civilization,...

Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles: I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion.

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I own that there is a haughtin...

I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.

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Humanity cannot be degraded by...

Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.

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It is by imitation, far more t...

It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly.

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There are cases in which a man...

There are cases in which a man would be ashamed not to have been imposed upon. There is a confidence necessary to human intercourse, and without which men are often more injured by their own suspicions than they would be by the perfidy of others.

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Oppression makes wise men mad;...

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.

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A jealous lover lights his tor...

A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend.

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Man acts from adequate motives...

Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations.

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The true way to mourn the dead...

The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.

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Obstinacy, sir, is certainly a...

Obstinacy, sir, is certainly a great vice; and in the changeful state of political affairs it is frequently the cause of great mischief. It happens, however, very unfortunately, that almost the whole line of the great and masculine virtues--constancy, gravity, magnanimity, fortitude, fidelity, and firmness--are closely allied to this disagreeable quality, of which you have so just an abhorrence; and in their excess all these virtues very easily fall into it.

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An extreme rigor is sure to ar...

An extreme rigor is sure to arm everything against it.

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The poorest being that crawls ...

The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.

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The parties are the gamesters;...

The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.

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Pleasure of every kind quickly...

Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies.

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Poetry, with all its obscurity...

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.

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Instead of casting away all ou...

Instead of casting away all our old prejudices, we cherish them to a very considerable degree, and, to take more shame to ourselves, we cherish them because they are prejudices; and the longer they have lasted and the more generally they have prevailed, the more we cherish them. We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations

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Prejudice renders a man's virt...

Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.

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By the disposition of a stupen...

By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young; but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.

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Religion is for the man in hum...

Religion is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state in which the privileges of opulence will cease, when he will be equal by nature, and may be more than equal by virtue.

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Religion is the basis of civil...

Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.

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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...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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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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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....