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Quote by Andre Gide
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor. – Andre Gide

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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. – Andre Gide

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Travel
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! – Andre Gide

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Change
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In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long. – Nikita Ivanovich Panin

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Middle age is when a narrow waist and a broad mind begin to change places. – Author Unknown

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From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery. – John Henry Newman

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Im happy to report that my inner child is still ageless. – James Broughton

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If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someones day. – Julianna Margulies

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The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people. – Marjane Satrapi

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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. – Herman Melville

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That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation. – Charles Babbage

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