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All our yesterdays, it is true...

All our yesterdays, it is true, have only lighted fools the way to dusty death. But we need at least the dates of the yesterdays and the list of the fools.

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The minute a man is convinced ...

The minute a man is convinced he is interesting, he isn't.

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The Compleat Angler is acknowl...

The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world's books. Only the trouble is that the world doesn't read its books, it borrows a detective story instead.

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The parent who could see his b...

The parent who could see his boy as he really is, would shake his head and say: 'Willie is no good; I'll sell him.

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Any man will admit if need be ...

Any man will admit if need be that his sight is not good, or that he cannot swim or shoots badly with a rifle, but to touch upon his sense of humour is to give him mortal affront.

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The attempt to make the consum...

The attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man to jail for eating cucumber salad.

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The great man... walks across ...

The great man... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on his goloshes as he passes.

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In point of morals, the averag...

In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked.

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In ancient times they had no s...

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

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Writing is not hard. Just get ...

Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard.

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Chess is one long regret....

Chess is one long regret.

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When actors begin to think, it...

When actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it.

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Being a specialist is one thin...

Being a specialist is one thing, getting a job is another.

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Most people can tire of a lect...

Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes, clever people can do it in five, and sensible people don't go to lectures at all.

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It was Einstein who made the r...

It was Einstein who made the real trouble. He announced in 1905 that there was no such thing as absolute rest. After that there never was.

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In Canada we have enough to do...

In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead and use English for literature, Scotch for sermons, and American for conversation.

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Charles Dickens' creation of M...

Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it.

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About the only good thing you ...

About the only good thing you can say about old age is, it's better than being dead!

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Any two meals at a boarding-ho...

Any two meals at a boarding-house are together less than two square meals.

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In earlier times they had no s...

In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive literature, giants, miracles, wonders! It's the size that counts. They did it with lies and we do it with statistics: but it's all the same.

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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....