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It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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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
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
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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Neighbor Ridicule Ridiculous
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
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
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty World
I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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Conversation Hate War
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
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
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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Age Last Time Words
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Certain Difficulty Last Words
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Natural Nature Science
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

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