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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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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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Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils
People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.
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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 hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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Conversation Hate War
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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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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Funny Hands Truth
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Certain Difficulty Last Words
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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Happiness Obstacles
Les vrais philosophes sont comme les e le phants, qui en marchant ne posent jamais le second pied a’ terre que le premier ne soit bien affermi. True philosophers are like elephants, who when walking never placetheir second footontheground untilthefirst is steady.
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Elephants Philosopher Steady
To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
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
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
I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
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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