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You can't make a silk purse o...

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

The sciences are found, like ...

The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

The power of fortune is confes...

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

Under this window in stormy we...

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

Good manners is the art of mak...

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

He was a bold man that first a...

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

For in reason, all government ...

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

When a true genius appears, yo...

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

A wise man should have money i...

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

Politics, as the word is commo...

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

Words are but wind and learnin...

Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

Ambition often puts men upon d...

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices: so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

So weak thou art that fools th...

So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

Seamen have a custom, when the...

Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

An intelligent person should p...

An intelligent person should put money in the beginning, but not in heart

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

How is it possible to expect t...

How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

Falsehood flies, and the truth...

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

I can discover no political ev...

I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own; where the law hath not been able to find an expedient.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

Satire is a sort of glass wher...

Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

A forward critic often dupes u...

A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest with Greek he over-run ye, Procure the book for love or money, Translated from Boileau's translation, And quote quotation on quotation.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

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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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....