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We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
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
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
If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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Funny Hands Truth
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Natural Nature Science
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.
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Death Men Succeed Usual
Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils
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
Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.
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Lover Math Principles
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
The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds, and distinguish the smallest differences of time.
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Differences Ordinary Watches

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