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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

Anatole France

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
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Equality Food Law Poor Rich
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
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
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
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 dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Talk Word
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
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
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
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Animal Love Oneself Soul
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Education Encouragement
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner
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

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