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The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
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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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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A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.
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We thank God for having created this world, and praise Him for having made another, quite different one, where the wrongs of this one are corrected.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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