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Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.
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Lover Math Principles
Ah! si l’on o” tait les chime’ res aux hommes, quel plaisir leur resterait? Oh! If man were robbed of his fantasies, what pleasure would be left him?
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Aux Fantasy Hommes Men
They will have the World to be in Large, what a Watch is in Small; which is very regular, and depends only upon the just disposing of the several Parts of the Movement.
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Life Science Watches
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Future Knows
If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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Funny Hands Truth
I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
Les vrais philosophes sont comme les e le phants, qui en marchant ne posent jamais le second pied a’ terre que le premier ne soit bien affermi. True philosophers are like elephants, who when walking never placetheir second footontheground untilthefirst is steady.
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Elephants Philosopher Steady
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty World
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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Happiness Obstacles
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind
It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo
Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.
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Knowledge Nothing Science World
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
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven

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