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

Anatole France

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
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
Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
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Death Endurance Nation Strength Survive
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
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
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
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Book Library Myself People
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
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
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
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
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
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking Wisdom

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

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