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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?

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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Conversation Hate War
The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees, and in time grow perfect; then we may fly as far as the Moon.
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Art Degree Future Invented Moo
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Natural Nature Science
A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.
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Believe Busy Philosopher
To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.
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Knowing Pretension Speak
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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Neighbor Ridicule Ridiculous
It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty World
A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.
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Elephants Feet Firsts
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
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
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 is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
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
People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.
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Done Knowing People

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