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Observed Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Propriety is the least of all laws, and the most observed.
- Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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- In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a… — Luther Burbank
- The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution. — Paul Cezanne
- The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- If all our national holidays were observed on Wednesdays, we could wind up with nine-day weekends. — George Carlin
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- Breakfast is a personal ritual that can only be properly observed alone, and in a spirit of genuine excess. The food factor… — Hunter S. Thompson