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I detest war; it ruins conversation

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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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 man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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Chants Men Voice World
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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Age Last Time Words
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
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
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
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
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Natural Nature Science
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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Regret Silence World
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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Neighbor Ridicule Ridiculous
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
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
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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Ambition Astronomy Passion Poor Thing
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
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood

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