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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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Jacques François-Anatole Thibault
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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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The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.
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The impotence of God is infinite.
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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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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.
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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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We live between two dense clouds the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.
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