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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

Anatole France

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.
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Eat Himself Man Old See Truth
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Character Man Truth
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Talk Word
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
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
Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.
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Care Human Necessary Poetry Science
Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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Courage Divine Goodness Life Suffering Value Virtue
We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Book Deep Devil God Religious Story Writing
The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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Deep Man Stars
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People
Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
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Death Endurance Nation Strength Survive
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
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Book Library Myself People

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

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