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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire.
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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.
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It is not easy to be a pretty woman without causing mischief.
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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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The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
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Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.
Anatole France
The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop without training.
Anatole France
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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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
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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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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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The best sentence? The shortest.
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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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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.
Anatole France
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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The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.
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