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| A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. |
Мудрый человек должен иметь деньги в своей голове, а не в своём сердце. |
| Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. |
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| He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. |
Он был смелым человеком, тот который первым попробовал устрицы. |
| I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. |
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| I row after health like a waterman... |
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| I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. |
Интересно, что был за дурак, что первым придумал целоваться. |
| It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind. |
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| It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. |
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| May you live all the days of your life. |
Желаю вам жить все дни вашей жизни. |
| No wise man ever wished to be younger. |
Нет мудрый человек никогда не хотел быть моложе. |
| One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid. |
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| Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. |
Видение - это искусство видеть невидимое. |
| When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. |
Когда на свет появляется истинный гений, то узнать его можно хотя бы потому, что все тупоголовые объединяются в борьбе против него. |