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Silence is the wit of fools.
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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Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that it still has left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
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The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
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What men call civilization is the condition of present customs what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.
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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
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I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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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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Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.
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