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As I know more of mankind I ex...

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Grief is a species of idleness...

Grief is a species of idleness.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

What provokes your risibility,...

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

If one was to think constantly...

If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Each person's work is always ...

Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a sc...

Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

The morality of an action depe...

The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to break his head and he picks it up and buy victuals with it, the physical effect is good. But with respect to me the action is very wrong.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Men more frequently require to...

Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.

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A man, doubtful of his dinner,...

A man, doubtful of his dinner, or trembling at a creditor, is not much disposed to abstracted meditation, or remote enquiries.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Any of us would kill a cow rat...

Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Before dinner men meet with gr...

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Everybody loves to have things...

Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation.

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I am not so lost in lexicograp...

I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

How small of all that human he...

How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find. With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

I am always sorry when any lan...

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

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Truth, Sir, is a cow which wil...

Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

To use two languages familiarl...

To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is hardly to be hoped. The prizes which some have received for their multiplicity of languages may be sufficient to excite industry, but can hardly generate confidence.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

I am not yet so lost in lexico...

I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things which they denote.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Every quotation contributes so...

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

He that embarks on the voyage ...

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

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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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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....