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Bankers are lynxes. To expect ...

Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity in the middle of winter.

Honore De Balzac 785 quotes

It is a singular fact that mos...

It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.

Honore De Balzac 785 quotes

The weakest being on earth can...

The weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic weather or hoist himself aloft to inscribe his name on a virgin monument.

Honore De Balzac 785 quotes

Events are never absolute, the...

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian, a treasure for a man of parts, and an abyss for a weakling.

Honore De Balzac 785 quotes

What makes friendship indissol...

What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

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When chaste people need body o...

When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.

Honore De Balzac 785 quotes

A man wastes his time going to...

A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.

Honore De Balzac 785 quotes

A man who stops at nothing sho...

A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!

Honore De Balzac 785 quotes

A rent in your clothes is a mi...

A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.

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Clothes are like a gloss that ...

Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.

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Men who pay their tailors neve...

Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.

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Priests, magistrates and ladie...

Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.

Honore De Balzac 785 quotes

Conscience is a cudgel which a...

Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.

Honore De Balzac 785 quotes

Constancy will always be the g...

Constancy will always be the genius of love, the indication of that strength which constitutes the poet. A man should possess all women in his wife, like those squalid poetasters of the seventeenth century who made fair Irises and dazzling Chloes of their lowly Manons.

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Women? In order to realize how...

Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves!

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Too great a display of delicac...

Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.

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A deist is an atheist with an ...

A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.

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Show me the woman, however loy...

Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.

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A woman in the depths of despa...

A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her lover. This is all the more true when that woman is young, pretty, and so decollete as to emerge from the neck of her gown in the costume of Eve.

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It is not hope but despair tha...

It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of hope but grief looms start and stripped of all veils.

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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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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....