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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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Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.
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In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.
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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
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Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
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Custom alone regulates morals.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
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Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable the other, who cries, makes it sacred.
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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
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A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
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The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.
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