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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

Anatole France

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
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
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Collection Goodness Walk
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
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
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
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
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Character Man Truth
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
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
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
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

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