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.
ANATOLE FRANCEAll ought to be common among friends.
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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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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.
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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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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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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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