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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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Deep Forever Life Mortal
Determination. 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 Determination Dream Planning
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Break Danger Evil Stupidity Time
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
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
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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Himself Kind Man
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
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
For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
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End Life People
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking Wisdom
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
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

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