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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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It is by believing in roses that you make them bloom.
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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
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Until you have loved an animal, part of your soul will have remained dormant.
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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives for at least a time is a necessary skill for being happy.]
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Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.
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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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Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
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So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.
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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.
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Justice is the sanction of established injustice.
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The more you say, the less they remember.
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Silence is the wit of fools.
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Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.
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Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.
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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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We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them
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It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.
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