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Certain is it that there is no...

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

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Cleanliness may be defined to ...

Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind.

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As addictions go, reading is a...

As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.

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Heaven is not to be looked upo...

Heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but the natural effect, of a religious life.

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No one is more cherished in th...

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

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An honest man, that is not qui...

An honest man, that is not quite sober, has nothing to fear.

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A reader seldom peruses a book...

A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor.

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When I behold a fashionable ta...

When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but man keeps to one dish. Herbs are the food of this species, fish of that, and flesh of a third. Man falls upon everything that comes in his way; not the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or a mushroom can escape him.

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But in all despotic government...

But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind.

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It must be so, Plato, thou rea...

It must be so, Plato, thou reason'st well!

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When all thy mercies, O my God...

When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost, in wonder, love and praise.

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A good disposition is more val...

A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.

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It was a saying of an ancient ...

It was a saying of an ancient philosopher, which I find some of our writers have ascribed to Queen Elizabeth, who perhaps might have taken occasion to repeat it, that a good face is a letter of recommendation.

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Title and ancestry render a go...

Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.

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Jealousy is that pain which a ...

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

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Our forefathers looked upon na...

Our forefathers looked upon nature with more reverence and horror, before the world was enlightened by learning and philosophy, and loved to astonish themselves with the apprehensions of witchcraft, prodigies, charms, and inchantments. There was not a village in England that had not a ghost in it, the church-yards were all haunted, every large common had a circle of fairies belonging to it, and there was scarce a shepherd to be met with who had not seen a spirit.

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Hope calculates its scenes for...

Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor.

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Words, when well chosen, have ...

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.

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I always rejoice when I see a ...

I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution of his country

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The circumstance which gives a...

The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves.

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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...

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....