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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

Anatole France

The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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Deep Man Stars
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
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
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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Animal Believe Himself Logic Man Thinking
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
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
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth
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
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
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
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
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
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

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