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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?

Anatole France

I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
ANATOLE FRANCE

Difference Myself Wisdom
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
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
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Break Danger Evil Stupidity Time
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
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
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon
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
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
ANATOLE FRANCE

Art Mindset Nature Purpose Satisfaction Teaching
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
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
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Collection Goodness Walk
We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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Deep Dreams One Liner
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
Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
ANATOLE FRANCE

Animal Believe Himself Logic Man Thinking
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
ANATOLE FRANCE

Himself Kind Man

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