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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

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
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Character Man Truth
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
As to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.
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Discover Kind Truth
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
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
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
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People
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
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
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
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 fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Collection Goodness Walk
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading

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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