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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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The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.
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The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.
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What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.
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America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.
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There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.
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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
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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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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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I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world for there are always some whom one can love.
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It is not easy to be a pretty woman without causing mischief.
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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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The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop without training.
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The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.
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It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.
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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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There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
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It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.
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You think you are dying for your country you die for the industrialists.
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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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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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