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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
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He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.
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A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.
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It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
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That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.
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Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
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Dog! When we first met on the highway of life, we came from the two poles of creation.... What can be the meaning of the obscure love for me that has sprung up in your heart?
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We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
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Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
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An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.'
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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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God, conquered, will become Satan Satan, conquering, will become God. May the fates spare me this terrible lot I love the Hell which formed my genius. I love the Earth where I have done some good, if it be possible to do any good in this fearful world where beings live but by rapine.
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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
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America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.
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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
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An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them
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The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
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