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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Anatole France

It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Collection Goodness Walk
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Animal Love Oneself Soul
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
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
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
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
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
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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Forever Life Man
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Education Encouragement
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 not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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Accomplishment Act Believe Dream Greatness Planning
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
Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.
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Care Human Necessary Poetry Science

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