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The average American may not ...

The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one degree better off than the average Frenchman who, as a rule, was in considerable doubt as to who his father was.

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I was educated, I was trained...

I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in Biblical times if a man committed a sin the extermination of the whole surrounding nation-cattle and all-was likely to happen. I knew that Providence was not particular about the rest, so that He got somebody connected with the one He was after.

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God, so atrocious in the Old ...

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

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In a good bookroom you feel i...

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

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On with the dance, let the jo...

On with the dance, let the joy be unconfined.

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I never write "metropolis" fo...

I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.

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Let us guess that whenever we...

Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; & it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style.

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When you catch an adjective, ...

When you catch an adjective, kill it.

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It is no harm to be an ass, i...

It is no harm to be an ass, if one is content to bray and not kick.

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[N]o country can be well gove...

[N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

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It is easy to see that the in...

It is easy to see that the inventor of the heaven did not originate the idea, but copied it from the show-ceremonies of some sorry little sovereign State up in the back settlements of the Orient somewhere.

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I can always tell which is th...

I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.

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We can achieve what we can co...

We can achieve what we can conceive and believe.

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Man can seldom - very, very, ...

Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

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A wise man does not waste so ...

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

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To us, our house was not unse...

To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction.

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Surely the ass who invented t...

Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned

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Not until you become a strang...

Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

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Go to bed early, get up early...

Go to bed early, get up early-this is wise.

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I do love compliments, yet I'...

I do love compliments, yet I'm often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment. I so often feel that they have not gone far enough.

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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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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...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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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....