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What a pity it is that we hav...

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!

Sydney Smith 122 quotes

People who love only once in ...

People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination

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Thank God for tea! What would...

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

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Bishop Berkeley destroyed thi...

Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.

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Marriage resembles a pair of ...

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

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A great deal of talent is los...

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

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Poverty is no disgrace to a m...

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

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Madam, I have been looking fo...

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.

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As the French say, there are ...

As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen.

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Correspondences are like smal...

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.

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Live always in the best compa...

Live always in the best company when you read.

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Life is to be fortified by ma...

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

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The thing about performance, ...

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

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Have the courage to be ignora...

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

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Manners are like the shadows ...

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

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In composing, as a general ru...

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

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It is safest to be moderately...

It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.

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Whatever you are by nature, k...

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

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To do anything in this world ...

To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.

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Among the smaller duties of l...

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

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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....