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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

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
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
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Book Deep Devil God Religious Story Writing
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
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.
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Animal Believe Himself Logic Man Thinking
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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Change Growth Live
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Beautiful Leadership Path
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Education Encouragement
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness
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
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.
ANATOLE FRANCE

Courage Divine Goodness Life Suffering Value Virtue
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
ANATOLE FRANCE

Difference Myself Wisdom

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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