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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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 whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.
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Until you have loved an animal, part of your soul will have remained dormant.
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The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.
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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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Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.
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One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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It is not easy to be a pretty woman without causing mischief.
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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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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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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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If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.
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I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.
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You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.
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Play is hand-to-hand encounter with Fate.
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Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.
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