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For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.

Anatole France

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
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
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
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
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Collection Goodness Walk
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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Deep Forever Life Mortal
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
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Talk Word
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
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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Commitment Difference Education Memories
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
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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Chance Earth Heaven Stupidity Thinking

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