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По-английски	Перевод
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.	Банкир - это парень, который предоставляет вам свой зонтик, когда светит солнце, но хочет его обратно, в минуту, когда начинается дождь.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.	«Классика» — это книга, которую хотят, чтобы все читали, но никто не хочет читать.
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.	У человека есть естественное желание иметь больше хороших вещей, чем ему необходимо.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.	-
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.	-
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.	Все, что вам нужно в этой жизни - это невежество и доверие, тогда успех вам обеспечен.
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.	-
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.	Всегда поступайте правильно. Это позволит удовлетворить некоторых людей и удивить остальных.
An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.	-
An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.	-
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.	-
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.	Будьте осторожны, когда читаете книги о здоровье: опечатка может стоить вам жизни.
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean.	-
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.	Одежда делает человека. Голые люди имеют мало или вообще не имеют влияния на общество.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.	Смелость это сопротивление страху, мастерство страха - не отсутствие страха.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.	-
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.	-
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.	-
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.	-
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.	Факты упрямая вещь, но статистика более гибкая.
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.	-
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.	-
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.	-
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.	Получите ваш факты, а затем вы можете искажать их, как вам будет угодно.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.	-
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.	-
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.	-
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.	-
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.	-
How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.	-
I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.	Я не из тех, кто в выражении мнения ограничиваются фактами.
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.	-
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.	-
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.	-
I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.	-
I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.	-
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.	Я прошел через ужасные вещи в моей жизни, некоторые из которых на самом деле произошли.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.	Я никогда не позволял школе вмешиваться в мое образование.
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.	Я никогда не делал никаких упражнений, кроме сна и отдыха.
I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.	-
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.	-
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.	Если подобрать голодную собаку, накормить и обласкать ее, то она тебя не укусит; в этом ее принципиальное отличие от человека.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.	Если вы скажете правду, вам не придется ничего вспоминать.
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.	-
In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.	-
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.	Сначала, Бог создал идиотов. Это было для практики. Затем он сделал школьные доски.
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.	-
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.	Лучше заслужить почести и не иметь их, чем иметь почести, но не заслужить их.
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.	Лучше молчать и показаться дураком, чем заговорить и развеять все сомнения.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.	-
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.	-
It is easier to stay out than get out.	-
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.	-
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.	Требуется более трёх недель, чтобы подготовить хорошую речь экспромтом.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.	-
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.	-
Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.	-
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.	-
Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.	-
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.	-
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.	Давайте жить так, чтобы, когда мы приходим, чтобы умереть, даже гробовщику будет нас жаль.
Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.	Человек — единственное животное, которое краснеет, и которому это действительно нужно.
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.	-
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.	-
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.	У моей матери было много хлопот со мной, но я думаю, что ей нравилось это.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.	Не откладывай на завтра то, что можешь отложить на послезавтра.
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.	Из всех животных только человек по-настоящему жесток. Только человек может причинять боль ради собственного удовольствия.
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.	Мне часто кажется, что лучше бы Ной и его команда опоздали на свой ковчег.
Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.	-
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.	-
Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.	Предположим, что вы идиот, и предположим, что вы были членом Конгресса. Но я повторюсь.
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.	Самую холодную зиму, которую я когда-либо видел - это было летом в Сан-Франциско.
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.	-
The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.	-
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.	-
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.	Человеческая раса имеет одно очень эффективное оружие, и это смех.
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.	Человек, который не читает хорошие книги, не имеет преимуществ перед человеком, который не может прочитать их.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.	-
The report of my death was an exaggeration.	Слухи о моей смерти сильно преувеличены.
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.	-
The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.	-
The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.	-
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.	-
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.	Есть несколько хороших способов защиты от соблазнов, но самым верным является трусость.
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.	-
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.	-
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.	-
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.	Истина более странная, чем вымысел.
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.	-
Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.	Вода, взятая в умеренных количествах, не помешает никому.
We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.	-
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.	-
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.	-
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.	Когда я был моложе, я мог вспомнить что-нибудь, происходило это или нет.
When in doubt, tell the truth.	Когда сомневаешься, говори правду.
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.	-
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.	-
When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one.	-
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.	Если вы заметили, что вы на стороне большинства, это верный признак того, что пора меняться.
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.	Вы не можете полагаться на свои глаза, когда ваше воображение не в фокусе.

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