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People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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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
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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Happiness Obstacles
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
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
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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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
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
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
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 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
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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Neighbor Ridicule Ridiculous
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
I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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