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Lord, Madame, I have fed like ...

Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

Flattery is the worst and fals...

Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

Common fluency of speech in ma...

Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

Possession, they say, is eleve...

Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

Ay, do despise me, I'm the pro...

Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

Brutes find out where their ta...

Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

When dunces are satiric, I tak...

When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric.

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Satire, being levelled at all,...

Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

Under the rose, since here are...

Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

When I am in danger of burstin...

When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds.

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You cannot reason a person out...

You cannot reason a person out of a position he did not reason himself into in the first place.

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Big-endians and small-endians....

Big-endians and small-endians.

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All Pretences of foretelling b...

All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether there be any Truth in this Science, do all unanimously agree to laugh at and despise it; and none but the poor ignorant Vulgar give it any Credit.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

The sciences are found, like H...

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.

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This single Stick, which you n...

This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a Forest: It was full of Sap, full of Leaves, and full of Boughs: But now, in vain does the busy Art of Man pretend to vie with Nature, by tying that withered Bundle of Twigs to its sapless Trunk: It is at best but the Reverse of what it was; a Tree turned upside down, the Branches on the Earth, and the Root in the Air.

Jonathan Swift 579 quotes

Argument, as usually managed, ...

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.

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Religion supposed Heaven and H...

Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check to wit and humour.

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... the atheists, libertines, ...

... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.

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He had been eight years upon a...

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.

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I have been assured by a very ...

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.

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...

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...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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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...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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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....