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An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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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
Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils
Truth comes home to the mind so naturally, that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no more than recall it to our memory.
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Home Memories Motivational
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty World
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
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind
I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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Conversation Hate War
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
It is high time for me to depart, for at my age I now begin to see things as they really are.
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Age Last Time Words
A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.
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Inspirational Mind Motivation
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
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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Happiness Obstacles
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 have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.
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Hundred Virtue Years
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
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Certain Difficulty Last Words

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