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Of many, imagined blessings i...

Of many, imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

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

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

I deny the lawfulness of tell...

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

There are innumerable questio...

There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

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

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

No, Sir, you will have much m...

No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

A man is very apt to complain...

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Very few live by choice. Ever...

Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did not always willingly cooperate; and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Never, my dear Sir, do you ta...

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Turn on the prudent Ant, thy...

Turn on the prudent Ant, thy heedful eyes, Observe her labours, Sluggard, and be wise.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

My diseases are an asthma and...

My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

His scorn of the great is rep...

His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Lectures were once useful; bu...

Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

All envy is proportionate to ...

All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by the addition of that which he withholds from us.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

I never take a nap after dinn...

I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night, and then the nap takes me.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

To use two languages familiar...

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

We may have many acquaintance...

We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Genius is that energy which c...

Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.

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I know not anything more plea...

I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

I am not yet so lost in lexic...

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

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...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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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...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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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...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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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...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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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....