It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable.
- Anatole France - In Old Age
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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.
- Anatole France - In On Change
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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.
- Anatole France - In Education
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Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
- Francesco Guicciardini - In Friendship
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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
- Anatole France - In Imagination
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