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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.

Anatole France

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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Eat Himself Man Old See Truth
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Education Encouragement
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Collection Goodness Walk
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 know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
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
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love
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
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Talk Word
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
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
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
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 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

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