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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.

Anatole France

Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
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
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
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
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
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
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools 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
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
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
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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Chance Earth Heaven Stupidity Thinking
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
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

The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.

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