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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

Anatole France

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
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 good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Collection Goodness Walk
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
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
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
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
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
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
Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.
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Care Human Necessary Poetry Science
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
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

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

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