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Men should not try to overstra...

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

Morality is the custom of one'...

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

People care more about being t...

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

People in general are equally ...

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

Some men love truth so much th...

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

The advantage of doing one's p...

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

The Athanasian Creed is to me ...

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

The function of vice is to kee...

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

The history of the world is th...

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

The only living works are thos...

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

The sinews of art and literatu...

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

The voice of the Lord is the v...

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

There is no true gracefulness ...

There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

There is such a thing as doing...

There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

Think of and look at your work...

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

Those who have never had a fat...

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

What is faith but a kind of be...

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

When a man is in doubt about t...

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

Work with some men is as beset...

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

A sense of humor keen enough t...

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

Samuel Butler 458 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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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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