All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
ANATOLE FRANCEAll 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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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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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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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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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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