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Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty World
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
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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Knowing Pretension Speak
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
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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Neighbor Ridicule Ridiculous
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind
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
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
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
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
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
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
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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Happiness Obstacles
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven

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