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I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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Certain Difficulty Last Words
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven
Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Special Two Veils
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
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
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
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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Geometry Hands Math Work
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Age Educated Mind
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Future Knows
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
Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is true, that this Method is too slow for the greatest part of Mankind, who run naturally to the Cause, and pass over the Truth of the Matter of Fact.
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Running Science Self
I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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Neighbor Ridicule Ridiculous
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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Husband Italian Mistress Woman

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