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Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!

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
If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.
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I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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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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An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind
A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.
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I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
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
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
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 takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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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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I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Certain Difficulty Last Words
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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