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Greatness of name in the father oft-times overwhelms the son; they stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth: so much, that we see the grandchild come more and oftener to be heir of the first. Benjamin Jonson		Tuesday Oct 20, 2026
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Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another. Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle

	Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
	(1657-1757) Preface sur l'Utilité des Mathématiques et de la Physique, 1729 - French man of letters, author.