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For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.
Anatole France
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Among other things they picked out a detail that Charles had been offered the Governorship of Hong Kong in its dying days by Thatcher in return for shutting up about the inner cities. He quite rightly in my view led the paper on this story.
Anthony Holden
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Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.
Anatole France
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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.
Anatole France
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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.
Anatole France
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When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.
Anatole France
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Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
Anatole France
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There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.
Anatole France
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Caress your phrase tenderly it will end by smiling at you.
Anatole France
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
Anatole France
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Until you have loved an animal, part of your soul will have remained dormant.
Anatole France
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True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.
Anatole France
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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.
Anatole France
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Universal peace will be realized, not because man will become better, but because a new order of things, a new science, new economic necessities, will impose peace.
Anatole France
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Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable the other, who cries, makes it sacred.
Anatole France
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Justice is the sanction of established injustice.
Anatole France
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Unhappiness does make people look stupid.
Anatole France
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Custom alone regulates morals.
Anatole France
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Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.
Anatole France
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Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire.
Anatole France
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The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.
Anatole France
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Distrust even Mathematics albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one grain of sand in the wheels is enough to put everything out of gear. One shudders to think to what disaster such a grain of sand may bring a Mathematical brain. Remember Pascal.
Anatole France
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The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.
Anatole France
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What men call civilization is the condition of present customs what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.
Anatole France
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