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Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.
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Dupes Secret Usual
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
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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Enlighted Future Light Stars
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Certain Difficulty Last Words
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
Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it’s fair that the philosophers reserve the sky for themselves and rule there, but they should never permit the entry of others.
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Earth Philosopher Sky
Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils
I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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Conversation Hate War
A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.
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Geometry Hands Math Work
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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Happiness Obstacles
It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Natural Nature Science
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
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind

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