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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.

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.
BERNARD LE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE

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Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is true, that this Method is too slow for the greatest part of Mankind, who run naturally to the Cause, and pass over the Truth of the Matter of Fact.
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I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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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
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Certain Difficulty Last Words
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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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
Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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Chants Men Voice World
Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time to reflect. This gave Leibniz time to reflect, too, and so he never married.
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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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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
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
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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Regret Silence 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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