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The landlady of a boarding-ho...

The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything

Stephen Leacock 125 quotes

The tears of childhood fall f...

The tears of childhood fall fast and easily, and evil be to him who makes them flow.

Stephen Leacock 125 quotes

A silk dress in four sections...

A silk dress in four sections, and shoes with high heels that would have broken the heart of John Calvin.

Stephen Leacock 125 quotes

The road comes to an end just...

The road comes to an end just when it ought to be getting somewhere. The passengers alight, shaken and weary, to begin, all over again, something else.

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I am what is called a profess...

I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.

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There is an old motto that run...

There is an old motto that runs, 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.' This is nonsense. It ought to read, 'If at first you don't succeed, quit, quit at once.'

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I admit that when the facts ar...

I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.

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There is no doubt that many th...

There is no doubt that many things in life come to us...at backrounds so to speak. Happiness is one of them.

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A lone maple leaf resting on s...

A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it, and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That's retirement.

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Now, the essence, the very spi...

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

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The English are terribly lazy ...

The English are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.

Stephen Leacock 125 quotes

A silk dress in four sections,...

A silk dress in four sections, and shoes with high heels that would have broken the heart of John Calvin.

Stephen Leacock 125 quotes

A barber is by nature and incl...

A barber is by nature and inclination a sport. He can tell you at what exact hour the ball game is to begin, can foretell its issue without losing a stroke of the razor, and can explain the points of inferiority of all the players, as compared with the better men that he has personally seen elsewhere, with the nicety of a professional.

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Humour is essentially a comfor...

Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.

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We can no longer communicate w...

We can no longer communicate with the apes by direct language, nor can we understand, without special study, their modes of communication which we have long since replaced by more elaborate forms. But it is at least presumable that they could still detect in our speech, at least when it is public and elaborate, the underlying tone values with which it began. Thus if we could take a gibbon ape to a college public lecture, he would not understand it, but he would 'get a good deal of it.' This is all the students get anyw

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Modern critics, who refuse to ...

Modern critics, who refuse to let a plain thing alone, have now started a theory that Cervantes's work is a vast piece of 'symbolism.' If so, Cervantes didn't know it himself and nobody thought of it for three hundred years. He meant it as a satire upon the silly romances of chivalry.

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You frequently ask, where are ...

You frequently ask, where are the friends of your childhood, and urge that they shall be brought back to you. As far as I am able to learn, those of your friends who are not in jail are still right there in your native village. You point out that they were wont to share your gambols, If so, you are certainly entitled to have theirs now.

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My parents migrated to Canada ...

My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.

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Indeed I have always found tha...

Indeed I have always found that the only thing in regard to Toronto which faraway people know for certain is that McGill University is in it.

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Presently I shall be introduce...

Presently I shall be introduced as 'this venerable old gentleman' and the axe will fall when they raise me to the degree of 'grand old man'. That means on our continent any one with snow-white hair who has kept out of jail till eighty.

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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...

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....