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Anatole France Inspirational Quotes (165)

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The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.
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Intelligent women always marry fools
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Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that it still has 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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A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows.
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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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What we call happiness is what we do not know.
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It is not customary to love what one has.
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I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.
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It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.
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Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.
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America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.
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For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.
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Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.
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Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.
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I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world for there are always some whom one can love.
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When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.
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Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
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There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.
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Caress your phrase tenderly it will end by smiling at you.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Until you have loved an animal, part of your soul will have remained dormant.
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True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.
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The dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float upon the waters. These are his gods to whom he appeals at night with long-drawn howls.
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