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His enemies might have said be...

His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.

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It is no more necessary that a...

It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the different books which have made him wise. Let us see the results of good food in a strong body, and the results of great reading in a full and powerful mind.

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Resolve to make at least one p...

Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.

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Heat, ma am! It was so dreadfu...

Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.

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Politeness is good nature regu...

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

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When you rise in the morning, ...

When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.

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Great men hallow a whole peopl...

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

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[T]he 47th proposition in Eucl...

[T]he 47th proposition in Euclid might now be voted down with as much ease as any proposition in politics; and therefore if Lord Hawkesbury hates the abstract truths of science as much as he hates concrete truth in human affairs, now is his time for getting rid of the multiplication table, and passing a vote of censure upon the pretensions of the hypotenuse.

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Never give way to melancholy; ...

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

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A man who wishes to make his w...

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

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I always fear that creation wi...

I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.

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People who love only once in t...

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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Take short views, hope for the...

Take short views, hope for the best and trust in God.

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The two women exchanged the ty...

The two women exchanged the type of glance women use when there is no knife handy.

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Oh, don't tell me of facts, I ...

Oh, don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know, [George] Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.

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The longer I live, the more I ...

The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca; and that half the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages; from a duct choked up, from food pressing in the wrong place, from a vexed duodenum, or an agitated pylorus.

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Lucy, dear child, mind your ar...

Lucy, dear child, mind your arithmetic. You know in the first sum of yours I ever saw there was a mistake. You had carried two (as a cab is licensed to do), and you ought, dear Lucy, to have carried but one. Is this a trifle? What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors.

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Avoid shame, but do not seek g...

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.

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He not only overflowed with le...

He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.

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Scotland: That garret of the e...

Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur.

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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...

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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....