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I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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Until you have loved an animal, part of your soul will have remained dormant.
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What we call happiness is what we do not know.
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Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
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God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves.
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Sometimes one day in a difference place gives you more than ten years of a life at home.
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Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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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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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.
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Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
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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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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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