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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.

Anatole France

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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Chance Earth Heaven Stupidity Thinking
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
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
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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Equality Food Poor Rich
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
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
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
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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Discover Kind Truth
Our passions are ourselves.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness
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

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