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An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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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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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven
To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
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!
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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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Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood

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