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Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give light?
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It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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Ah! si l’on o” tait les chime’ res aux hommes, quel plaisir leur resterait? Oh! If man were robbed of his fantasies, what pleasure would be left him?
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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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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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A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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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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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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An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.
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Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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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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