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There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard will kill both; and a German will kill herself.
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Husband Italian Mistress Woman
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 hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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Conversation Hate War
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty 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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Elephants Feet Firsts
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
A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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Chants Men Voice World
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind
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
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
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
Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!
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Ambition Astronomy Passion Poor Thing
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
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

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