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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first City.....Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future.
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What we call happiness is what we do not know.
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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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War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
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If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.
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