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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.

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 books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
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
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Beautiful Leadership Path
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 Dream Greatness Planning
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
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth
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
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
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
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
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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Deep Dreams One Liner
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
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
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

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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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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