- Bernard le Bouyer de Fontenelle
(02/11/1657 – 01/09/1757)
French writer
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"A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness."
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"E. M. Forster never gets any further than warming the teapot. He's a rare fine hand at that. Feel this teapot. Is it not beautifully warm? Yes, but there ain't going to be no tea."
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| "If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET." |  |
"I could have been a Judge, but I never had the Latin for the judgin'. I never had it, so I'd had it, as far as being a judge was concerned."
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