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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

It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Collection Goodness Walk
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
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Equality Food Law Poor Rich
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
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
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
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
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
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Animal Love Oneself Soul
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
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
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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Change Death Life Ourselves Sadness
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
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

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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