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The survivorship of a worthy m...

The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.

Richard Steele 77 quotes

Vanity makes people ridiculous...

Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.

Richard Steele 77 quotes

I know of no manner of speakin...

I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.

Richard Steele 77 quotes

Praise from an enemy is the mo...

Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.

Richard Steele 77 quotes

The insupportable labor of doi...

The insupportable labor of doing nothing.

Richard Steele 77 quotes

There is hardly that person to...

There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

Richard Steele 77 quotes

Such is the weakness of our na...

Such is the weakness of our nature, that when men are a little exalted in their condition they immediately conceive they have additional senses, and their capacities enlarged not only above other men, but above human comprehension itself.

Richard Steele 77 quotes

Since our persons are not of o...

Since our persons are not of our own making, when they are such as appear defective or uncomely, it is, methinks, an honest and laudable fortitude to dare to be ugly.

Richard Steele 77 quotes

Pleasure seizes the whole man ...

Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of the present hour.

Richard Steele 77 quotes

Pride destroys all symmetry an...

Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.

Richard Steele 77 quotes

The married state, with and wi...

The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Richard Steele 77 quotes

Though her mien carries much m...

Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; to love her was a liberal education.

Richard Steele 77 quotes

I was going home two hours ago...

I was going home two hours ago, but was met by Mr. Griffith, who has kept me ever since. . . . I will come within a pint of wine.

Richard Steele 77 quotes

It is to beoted that when any ...

It is to beoted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.

Richard Steele 77 quotes

People spend their lives in th...

People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.

Richard Steele 77 quotes

There can hardly, I believe, b...

There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery.

Richard Steele 77 quotes

A healthy old fellow, who is n...

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Richard Steele 77 quotes

One common calamity makes men ...

One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular

Richard Steele 77 quotes

The fool within himself is the...

The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.

Richard Steele 77 quotes

It is a wonderful thing that s...

It is a wonderful thing that so many, and they not reckoned absurd, shall entertain those with whom they converse by giving them the history of their pains and aches and imagine such narrations their quota of conversation.

Richard Steele 77 quotes

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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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....