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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

Anatole France

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
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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Commitment Difference Education Memories
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
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Collection Goodness Walk
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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Enough Mindset 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 not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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Accomplishment Act Believe Dream Greatness Planning
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
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
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
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
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
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love

Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

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