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Venus, a beautiful, good-natur...

Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage: and they were always mortal enemies.

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The tiny Lilliputians surmise ...

The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.

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

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

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When you set about your compos...

When you set about your composing, it may be necessary for your ease, and better distillation of wit, to put on your worst clothes, and the worse the better; for an author, like a limbeck, will yield the better for having a rag about him: besides that, I have observed a gardener cut the outward rind of a tree (which is the surtout of it) to make it bear well; and this is a natural account of the usual poverty of poets, and is an argument why wits, of all men living, ought to be ill clad.

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There is no vice which humanki...

There is no vice which humankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

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Few are qualified to shine in ...

Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.

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If the men of wit and genius w...

If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.

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A footman may swear; but he ca...

A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?

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Two friendships in two breasts...

Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

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O Grub Street! how do I bemoan...

O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.

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I hate nobody: I am in charity...

I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.

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It is computed that eleven tho...

It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.

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Coffee makes us severe, and gr...

Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.

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The sight of you is good for s...

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

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An excuse is a lie guarded....

An excuse is a lie guarded.

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Nor do they trust their tongue...

Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.

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When a real genius appeares in...

When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.

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Happiness is the perpetual pos...

Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.

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Time is painted with a lock be...

Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it.

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Many a truth is told in jest....

Many a truth is told in jest.

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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....