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No place affords a more strik...

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Human life is everywhere a st...

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

The usual fortune of complain...

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Poetry is the art of uniting p...

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

The first years of man make pr...

The first years of man make provision for the last.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Men seldom give pleasure where...

Men seldom give pleasure where they are not pleased themselves.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Great works are performed, not...

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Yonder palace was raised by single stones, yet you see its height and spaciousness. He that shall walk with vigor three hours a day will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

The mind is seldom quickened t...

The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Order is a lovely nymph, the c...

Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom; her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity; her abode is the valley of happiness: she is always to be found when sought for, and never appears so lovely as when contrasted with her opponent, Disorder.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

It is so far from being natura...

It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilised society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

A jest's prosperity lies in th...

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, Never in the tongue of him that makes it.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

I deny the lawfulness of telli...

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

Secure, whate'er he gives, he ...

Secure, whate'er he gives, he gives the best.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

In solitude we have our dreams...

In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Advertisements are now so nume...

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick...

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When people find a man of the ...

When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must behighly gratifying to them.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

The true source of cheerfulnes...

The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Marriage has many pains, but c...

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

It is better to suffer wrong t...

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

When a man is tired of London,...

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford

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...

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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....