"What is now reason was formerly impulse or…" — Ovid

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• By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh… — Giacomo Casanova
• It is better not to become acquainted with men about whom you have formerly had doubts. No matter what you… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
• That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
• Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse. — Philibert Joseph Roux
• Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that… — David Hume
• Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the… — Doug Larson
• Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any… — Oswald Spengler
• Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has… — Calvin Coolidge
• Philosophy is that part of science which at present people chose to have opinions about, but which they have no… — Bertrand Russell
• Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five… — Woody Allen
• Courteous Reader, Astrology is one of the most ancient Sciences, held in high esteem of old, by the Wise and… — Benjamin Franklin
• Let us suppose, that the Old and New worlds were formerly but one continent, and that, by a violent earthquake,… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

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