He would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue. And in truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
ANATOLE FRANCEIf the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
More Anatole France Quotes
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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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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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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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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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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