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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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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.
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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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Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say 'truth' and you understand my meaning. For the beautiful words truth and justice need not to be defined in order to be understood in their true sense.
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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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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.
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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Justice is the sanction of established injustice.
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Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.
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We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
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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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Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.
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The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.
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A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
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Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.
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Caress your phrase tenderly it will end by smiling at you.
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