If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
ANATOLE FRANCEThe books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
More Anatole France Quotes
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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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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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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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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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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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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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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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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