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Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Natural Nature Science
A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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Chants Men Voice World
A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.
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Geometry Hands Math Work
If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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Funny Hands Truth
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Future Knows
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
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
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
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
A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.
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Believe Busy Philosopher
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
Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.
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Knowledge Nothing Science World
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
Ah! si l’on o” tait les chime’ res aux hommes, quel plaisir leur resterait? Oh! If man were robbed of his fantasies, what pleasure would be left him?
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Aux Fantasy Hommes Men
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding

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