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| A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. |
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| A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her. |
Мужчина может быть счастлив с любой женщиной, пока он ее не любит. |
| A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. |
Человек не может быть слишком осторожным в выборе своих врагов. |
| Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. |
Всегда прощайте своих врагов, ничто не раздражает их больше. |
| America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. |
Америка не раз была обнаружена до Колумба, но это всегда было замято. |
| America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. |
Америка является единственной страной, которая пошла от варварства к цивилизации без упадка между ними. |
| Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success. |
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| Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. |
Любой, кто живет в пределах своих возможностей, страдает от недостатка воображения. |
| Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing. |
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| At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets. |
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| Biography lends to death a new terror. |
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| Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. |
Вначале дети любят своих родителей, потом, когда они становятся старше, они начинают судить их, иногда они их прощают. |
| Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. |
Последовательность является последним прибежищем воображения. |
| Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made. |
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| Do not speak ill of society, Algie. Only people who can't get in do that. |
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| Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. |
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| Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. |
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| Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. |
Мода - это форма безобразия и настолько невыносима, что мы должны менять ее каждые шесть месяцев. |
| Genius is born--not paid. |
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| I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex. |
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| I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones. |
Я всегда хотел знать все о моих новых друзьях, и ничего о моих старых. |
| I am not young enough to know everything. |
Я не достаточно молод, чтобы знать все. |
| I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible. |
Я могу поверить во что угодно, при условии, что это просто невероятно. |
| I can resist anything but temptation. |
Я могу сопротивляться всему, кроме искушения. |
| I don't play accurately-any one can play accurately- but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life. |
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| I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. |
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| I love acting. It is so much more real than life. |
Я люблю действовать. Это гораздо интереснее, чем реальная жизнь. |
| I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means. |
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| I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability. |
Я думаю, что Бог при создании человека несколько переоценил свои способности. |
| I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. |
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| If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. |
Если вы хотите рассказать людям правду, то заставьте их смеяться, иначе они убьют вас. |
| Illusion is the first of all pleasures. |
Иллюзия - это первая из всех удовольствий. |
| It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. |
Это так печально, что сегодня очень мало бесполезной информации. |
| It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal. |
Всегда глупо давать советы, но дать хороший совет является глупостью вдвойне. |
| It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. |
Абсурдно делить людей на хороших и плохих. Люди либо очаровательны, либо утомительны. |
| It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. |
Лучше иметь постоянный доход, чем быть очаровательным. |
| It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. |
Только аукционист может одинаково и беспристрастно восхищаться всеми школами искусства. |
| Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. |
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| Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. |
Человек больше всего лукавит, когда говорит от своего лица. Дайте ему маску, и он скажет вам правду. |
| Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. |
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| Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event. |
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| Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. |
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| Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. |
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| My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's. |
Мой собственный бизнес всегда скучен до смерти, поэтому я предпочитаю бизнес других людей. |
| Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. |
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| One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing. |
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| One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. |
В настоящее время можно пережить все, кроме смерти, и загладить все, кроме хорошей репутации. |
| One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar. |
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| One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. |
Нужно всегда играть честно, когда есть верные карты. |
| One's real life is often the life that one does not lead. |
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| Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. |
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| Only the shallow know themselves. |
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| Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. |
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| Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. |
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| Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. |
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| Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. |
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| Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. |
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| Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. |
Страдание есть очень долгий миг. Мы не можем разделить его на сезоны. |
| The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional. |
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| The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. |
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| The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself. |
Единственное, что можно делать с хорошим советом, это передать его другому. Его никогда нельзя использовать для себя. |
| The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. |
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| The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. |
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| The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. |
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| The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived. |
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| The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. |
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| The truth is rarely pure and never simple. |
Истина редко бывает чистой и никогда не бывает простой. |
| There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. |
Есть много вещей, которые мы хотели бы выбросить, но боимся, что другие могут их забрать. |
| There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing. |
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| There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. |
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| There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. |
Не существует такого понятия, как моральные или аморальные книги. Книги могут хорошо или плохо написаны. |
| To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity. |
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| To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. |
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| Vile deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air, it is only what is good in man, that wastes and withers there. |
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| We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. |
Мы все в сточной канаве, но некоторые из нас смотрят на звезды. |
| We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. |
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| We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. |
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| We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow. |
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| What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. |
Что такое циник? Человек, который знает цену вещам и не знает их ценности. |
| When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs. |
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| When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. |
Когда боги хотят наказать нас, они отвечают на наши молитвы. |
| Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. |
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| Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. |
Всякий раз, когда люди соглашаются со мной, я всегда чувствую, что должно быть я не прав. |
| Why was I born with such contemporaries? |
Почему я родился с такими современниками? |
| Wisdom comes with winters. |
Мудрость приходит с началом зимы. |
| Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects. |
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| Work is the curse of the drinking classes. |
Работа - это проклятие пьющего класса. |
