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There are some sordid minds, f...

There are some sordid minds, formed of slime and filth, to whom interest and gain are what glory and virtue are to superior souls; they feel no other pleasure but to acquire money.

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You think him to be your dupe;...

You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?

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Cheats easily believe others a...

Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.

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We never deceive for a good pu...

We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.

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Profane eloquence is transfere...

Profane eloquence is transfered from the bar, where Le Maitre, Pucelle, and Fourcroy formerly practised it, and where it has become obsolete, to the Pulpit, where it is out of place.

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Eloquence may be found in conv...

Eloquence may be found in conversations and in all kinds of writings; it is rarely found when looked for, and sometimes discovered where it is least expected.

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Eloquence is to the sublime wh...

Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part.

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The punishment of a criminal i...

The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.

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Born merely for the purpose of...

Born merely for the purpose of digestion.

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The nearer we come to great me...

The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.

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Rarely do they appear great be...

Rarely do they appear great before their valets.

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When a man puts on a Character...

When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.

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A judge's duty is to grant jus...

A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the general practice.

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Languages are no more than the...

Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.

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Modesty is to merit, what shad...

Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out.

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We must strive to make ourselv...

We must strive to make ourselves really worthy of some employment. We need pay no attention to anything else; the rest is the business of others.

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We trust our secrets to our fr...

We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love.

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When life is unhappy it is har...

When life is unhappy it is hard to endure, when it is happy it is terrible to think of it ending. Both amount to the same thing in the end.

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A man often runs the risk of t...

A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.

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There exist some evils so terr...

There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect makes us shudder; but if they happen to fall on us, we find ourselves stronger than we imagined, we grapple with our ill luck, and behave better than we expected we should.

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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...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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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...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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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....