All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
ANATOLE FRANCENever lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
More Anatole France Quotes
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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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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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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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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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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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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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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