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Every improvement that is put ...

Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another idea; the railroad is another; the telephone and all those things are merely symbols which represent ideas. An andiron, a wash-tub, is the result of an idea that did not exist before.

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It used to be a good hotel, bu...

It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.

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All saints can do miracles, bu...

All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep a hotel.

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There was never a century nor ...

There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.

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Thou shalt not commit adultry ...

Thou shalt not commit adultry is a command which makes no distinction between the following persons. They are all required to obey it: children at birth. Children in the cradle. School children. Youths and maidens. Fresh adults. Older ones. Men and women of 40. Of 50. Of 60. Of 70. Of 80. Of 100. The command does not distribute its burden equally, and cannot. It is not hard upon the three sets of children.

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Man has imagined a heaven, and...

Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values.

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If everyone was satisfied with...

If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

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Adam was but humanЂ'this expla...

Adam was but humanЂ'this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

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Many public-school children se...

Many public-school children seem to know only two datesЂ'1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.

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But I reckon I got to light ou...

But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of therest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before.

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There was never yet an uninter...

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

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The radical of one century is ...

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

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I don't want no better book th...

I don't want no better book than what your face is.

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Just the omission of Jane Aust...

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

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What a wee little part of a pe...

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Everyday would make a whole book of 80,000 words -- 365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

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I didn't have time to write a ...

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

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Of all God's creatures, there ...

Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

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Life does not consist mainly, ...

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.

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What work I have done I have d...

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.

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Of course, no man is entirely ...

Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.

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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...

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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....