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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.

Anatole France

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
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
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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Deep Dreams One Liner
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Education Encouragement
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
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
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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Change Growth Live
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
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
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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Deep Forever Life Mortal
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 Dream Greatness Planning
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
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom

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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