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Anatole France

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
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
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
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
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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Chance Earth Heaven Stupidity Thinking
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Education Encouragement
As to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.
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Discover Kind Truth
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
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
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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Deep Dreams One Liner
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon
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 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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Art Mindset Nature Purpose Satisfaction Teaching
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking Wisdom

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