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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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Distrust even Mathematics albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one grain of sand in the wheels is enough to put everything out of gear. One shudders to think to what disaster such a grain of sand may bring a Mathematical brain. Remember Pascal.
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People who don't count won't count.
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It is not customary to love what one has.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.
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It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.
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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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