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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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
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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Art Mindset Nature Purpose Satisfaction Teaching
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
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
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Talk Word
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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Deep Man Stars
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Education Encouragement
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Break Danger Evil Stupidity Time
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
Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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Courage Divine Goodness Life Suffering Value Virtue
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
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
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

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

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