Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
BERNARD LE BOVIER DE FONTENELLEI shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.
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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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It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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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.
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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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People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.
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A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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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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I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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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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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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