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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.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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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
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind
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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Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.
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Death Men Succeed 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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Carefully Hands Open Thinking
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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I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Certain Difficulty Last Words
I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Libertarian Liberty World
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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Regret Silence World
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven
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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A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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Chants Men Voice World
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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