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An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.

Anatole France

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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Goodness Love Man Sin Writing
An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
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Commitment Difference Education Memories
Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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Desire Forever Man Past Regret Young
Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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Animal Believe Himself Logic Man Thinking
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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Equality Food Poor Rich
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
Our passions are ourselves.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion
We should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
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Himself Principle
To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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Accomplishment Act Believe Dream Greatness Planning
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom

An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.

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An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.

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