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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.

Anatole France

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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Himself Kind Man
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
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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Forever Life Man
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 books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
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
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
But I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.
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Himself Myself Touch World
Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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Enough Mindset People
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
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
Our passions are ourselves.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Animal Love Oneself Soul
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
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
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking Wisdom
Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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Animal Believe Himself Logic Man Thinking
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
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
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature

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