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None of us can be as great as ...

None of us can be as great as God, but any of us can be as good.

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God, so atrocious in the Old T...

God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.

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Are you so unobservant as not ...

Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?

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To be busy is man's only happi...

To be busy is man's only happiness.

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The perfection of wisdom, and ...

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

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Happiness ain't a thing in its...

Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

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Men are like bank accounts. Th...

Men are like bank accounts. The more money, the more interest they generate.

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I said there was but one solit...

I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

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The past does not repeat itsel...

The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

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History never repeats itself; ...

History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.

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The funniest things are the fo...

The funniest things are the forbidden.

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Humorists of the 'mere' sort c...

Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration.

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The humorous writer professes ...

The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.

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Laughter without a tinge of ph...

Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

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Humor is the great thing, the ...

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

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Humor is the good natured side...

Humor is the good natured side of a truth.

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Humor must be one of the chief...

Humor must be one of the chief attributes of God. Plants and animals that are distinctly humorous in form and characteristics are God's jokes.

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So you see, the quality of hum...

So you see, the quality of humor is not a personal or a national monopoly. It's as free as salvation, and, I am afraid, far more widely distributed. But it has its value, I think. The hard and sordid things of life are too hard and too sordid and too cruel for us to know and touch them year after year without some mitigating influence, some kindly veil to draw over them, from time to time, to blur the craggy outlines, and make the thorns less sharp and the cruelties less malignant.

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I pity the fellow who has to c...

I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I have never stooped to spell cat with a 'k' to get at your funny bone. I love a drink, but I never encouraged drunkenness by harping on its alleged funny side.

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Probably there is an impercept...

Probably there is an imperceptible touch of something permanent that one feels instinctively to adhere to true humour, whereas wit may be the mere conversational shooting up of 'smartness'--a bright feather, to be blown into space the second after it is launched...Wit seems to be counted a very poor relation to Humour....Humour is never artificial.

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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...

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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....