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Put an Englishman into the ga...

Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blasted concern; put a Yankee in, and he would see where he could alter it to advantage; put an Irishman in, and he would want to boss the thing; put a Dutchman in, and he would proceed to plant it.

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There are only two qualities ...

There are only two qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency; and only two sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient.

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My advice to those who are ab...

My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnest, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.

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Men are seldom underrated; th...

Men are seldom underrated; the mercury in a man finds its true level in the eyes of the world just as certainly as it does in the glass of a thermometer.

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Experience increases our wisd...

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

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Pedigrees seldom improve by a...

Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent.

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Virtue does not consist in th...

Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.

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Fuss is half-sister to hurry,...

Fuss is half-sister to hurry, and neither of them can do anything without getting in their own way.

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Too many individuals are like...

Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of "echo,"--babbling gossips of the air.

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We have some writers so abstr...

We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences.

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When good-natured people leav...

When good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return.

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The nearest we can come to) p...

The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it.

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I never had a man come to me ...

I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine.

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Life is like a mountain: afte...

Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled.

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Zoroaster said, when in doubt...

Zoroaster said, when in doubt abstain; but this does not always apply. At cards, when in doubt take the trick.

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It ain't because lovers are s...

It ain't because lovers are so sensitive that they quarrel so often; it is because there is so much fun n the making up.

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the squeeky wheel gets the gr...

the squeeky wheel gets the grease.

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It is true that wealth won't ...

It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.

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It's not so hard to get rich ...

It's not so hard to get rich as it is to know when you have gotten rich.

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Show me a thoroughly contente...

Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.

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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....