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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 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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Unhappiness does make people look stupid.
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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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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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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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It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.
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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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