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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
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Education Encouragement
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
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
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Animal Love Oneself Soul
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 not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
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
Our passions are ourselves.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion
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
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship

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