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We should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.

Anatole France

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Character Man Truth
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
Determination. 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 Determination Dream Planning
As to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.
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Discover Kind Truth
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
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness
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
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Talk Word
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon
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
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
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 know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Collection Goodness Walk

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