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I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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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
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
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind
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
To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
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
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
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
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
If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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Funny Hands Truth
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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Math Mind Reflect Time
A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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Chants Men Voice World
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
Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils
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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