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Jesting, often, only proves a ...

Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Of all the griefs that harass ...

Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Nothing is more common than to...

Nothing is more common than to find men, whose works are now totally neglected, mentioned with praises by their contemporaries as the oracles of their age, and the legislators of science.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

London! the needy villain's ge...

London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Luxury, so far as it reaches t...

Luxury, so far as it reaches the people, will do good to the race of people; it will strengthen and multiply them. Sir, no nation was ever hurt by luxury; for, as I said before; it can reach but a very few.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

A good wife is like the ivy wh...

A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient edifice into a ruin.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

I believe marriages would in g...

I believe marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the lord chancellor, upon a due consideration of the characters and circumstances, without the parties having any choice in the matter.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

It is one of the maxims of the...

It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

As the faculty of writing has ...

As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

These papers of the day have u...

These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.

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Occupation alone is happiness....

Occupation alone is happiness.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Present opportunities are negl...

Present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Pleasure itself is not a vice...

Pleasure itself is not a vice

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A man guilty of poverty easily...

A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected.

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None can be pleased without pr...

None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

What is twice read is commonly...

What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

To paint things as they are re...

To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.

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He that never labors may know ...

He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures.

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To be of no Church is dangerou...

To be of no Church is dangerous.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

As every one is pleased with i...

As every one is pleased with imagining that he knows something not yet commonly divulged, secret history easily gains credit; but it is for the most part believed only while it circulates in whispers, and when once it is openly told, is openly refuted.

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....