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Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.

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
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
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
A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.
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Inspirational Mind Motivation
I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.
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Hundred Virtue Years
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
They will have the World to be in Large, what a Watch is in Small; which is very regular, and depends only upon the just disposing of the several Parts of the Movement.
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Life Science Watches
It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Everything Passion Undo
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Future Knows
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
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 a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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Happiness Obstacles
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
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
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Certain Difficulty Last 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

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