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Nay, Sir, it was not the WINE...

Nay, Sir, it was not the WINE that made your head ache, but the SENSE that I put into it' 'What, Sir! will sense make the head ache?' 'Yes, Sir, (with a smile,) when it is not used to it.

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Addison writes with the ease ...

Addison writes with the ease of a gentleman. His readers fancy that a wise and accomplished companion is talking to them; so thathe insinuates his sentiments and taste into their minds by an imperceptible influence. Johnson writes like a teacher. He dictates to his readers as if from an academical chair. They attend with awe and admiration; and his precepts are impressed upon them by his commanding eloquence. Addison's style, like a light wine, pleases everybody from the first. Johnson's, like a liquor of more body, seems too strong at first, but, by degrees, is highly relished.

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But the question is, whether ...

But the question is, whether the animals who endure such sufferings of various kinds for the service and entertainment of man, would accept existence upon the terms on which they have it.

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I am, I flatter myself, compl...

I am, I flatter myself, completely a citizen of the world. In my travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Corsica, France, I never felt myself from home.

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Writing a book I have found t...

Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials.

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[A]s a lady adjusts her dress...

[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal.

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We often observe in lawyers, ...

We often observe in lawyers, who as Quicquid agunt homines is the matter of law suits, are sometimes obliged to pick up a temporary knowledge of an art or science, of which they understood nothing till their brief was delivered, and appear to be much masters of it.

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What a curious creature is ma...

What a curious creature is man; with what a variety of powers and faculties is he endued; yet how easily is he disturbed and put out of order.

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He had no settled plan of lif...

He had no settled plan of life, nor looked forward at all, but merely lived from day to day. Yet he read a great deal in a desultory manner, without any scheme of study, as chance threw books in his way, and inclination directed him through them.

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In an orchard there should be...

In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot on the ground.

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Drinking is in reality an occu...

Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in the most rational and agreeable manner is one of the great arts of living.

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In every place, where there is...

In every place, where there is any thing worthy of observation, there should be a short printed directory for strangers.

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As all who come into the count...

As all who come into the country must obey the King, so all who come into an university must be of the Church.

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Influence must ever be in prop...

Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should.

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I fancy mankind may come, in t...

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.

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I find I journalize too tediou...

I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate.

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All censure of a man's self is...

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise.

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Friendship, 'the wine of life...

Friendship, 'the wine of life,' should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed.

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A Sceptick therefore, who beca...

A Sceptick therefore, who because he finds that Truths are not universally received, doubts of their existence, is just as foolish as a man who should try large shoes upon little feet, and little shoes upon large feet, and finding that they did not fit.

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The man who stops making new f...

The man who stops making new friends eventually will have none.

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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....