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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.

Anatole France

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
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
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
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking Wisdom
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
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
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
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
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
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
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
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
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
Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.
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Care Human Necessary Poetry Science
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

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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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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