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No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that it still has left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
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Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say 'truth' and you understand my meaning. For the beautiful words truth and justice need not to be defined in order to be understood in their true sense.
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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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The dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float upon the waters. These are his gods to whom he appeals at night with long-drawn howls.
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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
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Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose. One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor in complaining about the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life.
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We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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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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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
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It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.
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It is by believing in roses that you make them bloom.
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We live between two dense clouds the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.
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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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The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.
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You think you are dying for your country you die for the industrialists.
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Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned
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The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.
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