Blaise Pascal: It is necessary to show that there is nothing so little known , nothing more difficult to practice, or nothing more usef

It is necessary to show that there is nothing so little known , nothing more dif — Blaise Pascal

It is necessary to show that there is nothing so little known , nothing more difficult to practice, or nothing more useful and universal.

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The South may keep her pine-apples, and we will be content with our strawberries — Henry David Thoreau
Simplify, simplify. — Henry David Thoreau
The more simply we look at ticklish questions, the more placid will be our lives — Anton Chekhov
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He that can't live upon love deserves to die in a ditch. — William Congreve
See Time has touched me gently in his race, And left no odious furrows in my fac — George Crabbe