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We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
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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Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
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America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.
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The heart errs like the head its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.
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An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
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It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.
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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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