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Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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.
BERNARD LE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE

Life Science Watches
Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils
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
Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it’s fair that the philosophers reserve the sky for themselves and rule there, but they should never permit the entry of others.
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Earth Philosopher Sky
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
If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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Funny Hands Truth
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
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
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
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
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Future Knows
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
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
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

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