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 FRANCETime deals gently only with those who take it gently.
More Anatole France Quotes
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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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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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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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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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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