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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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People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.
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I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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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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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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Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds, and distinguish the smallest differences of time.
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I detest war; it ruins conversation
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As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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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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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.
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I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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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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There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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