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People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give light?
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Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.
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Death Men Succeed Usual
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.
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Carefully Hands Open Thinking
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty World
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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Neighbor Ridicule Ridiculous
Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard will kill both; and a German will kill herself.
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Husband Italian Mistress Woman
I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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Conversation Hate War
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Natural Nature Science
We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.
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Feet Land Pleasure
The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds, and distinguish the smallest differences of time.
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Differences Ordinary Watches

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