peu de chose
Americannoun
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Is it worth while, pour si peu de chose?
From Miss Cayley's Adventures by Grant Allen
Laplace's words, 'Ce que nous connaissons est peu de chose; ce que nous ignorons est immense,' were not, as is commonly stated, his last.
From Myths and Marvels of Astronomy by Richard A. (Richard Anthony) Proctor
Que peu de chose est la vie humaine, is an exclamation in the mouths of moralists and philosophers, to which I cannot agree.
From Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners by William Hazlitt
The stanza from which Boswell quotes is as follows:— 'O Maupertuis, cher Maupertuis, Que notre vie est peu de chose!
From Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 by George Birkbeck Norman Hill
It is commonly said that the last words of Laplace were, "Ce que nous connaissons est peu de chose; ce que nous ignorons est immense."
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by David Eugene Smith
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