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• A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.

  Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
  French author (1657 - 1757)
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• A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.

  Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
  French author (1657 - 1757)
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• Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

  André Gide
  French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• well-cultivated
• withdrawal
• educated
• previous
• tomorrow
• possible

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