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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

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Education Encouragement
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
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
We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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Deep Dreams One Liner
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
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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Himself Kind Man
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness

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

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