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" We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best. "
Anatole France
Best
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" The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. "
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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 left me. "
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" We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal. "
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" The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. "
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" In art as in love, instinct is enough. "
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" What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster! "
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" The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces. "
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" 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 know and what you don't. "
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" 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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" If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. "
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" War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war. "
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" You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving. "
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" Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue. "
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" The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity. "
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" Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal. "
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" Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil. "
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