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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.

Anatole France

When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Talk Word
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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Death Endurance Nation Strength Survive
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
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
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
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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Change Growth Live
All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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Goodness Love Man Sin Writing
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon
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
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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Deep Forever Life Mortal
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Break Danger Evil Stupidity Time
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time

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