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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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Custom alone regulates morals.
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All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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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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It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.
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It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
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In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing in democracies it is the only sacred thing.
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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
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Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows.
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It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state.
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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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