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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.

Anatole France

I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature
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
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Education Encouragement
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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Change Death Life Ourselves Sadness
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
But I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.
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Himself Myself Touch World
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
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Beautiful Leadership Path
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking Wisdom

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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