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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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You think you are dying for your country you die for the industrialists.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
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It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
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Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
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The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.
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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
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He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.
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That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.
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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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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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Dog! When we first met on the highway of life, we came from the two poles of creation.... What can be the meaning of the obscure love for me that has sprung up in your heart?
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In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing in democracies it is the only sacred thing.
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Until you have loved an animal, part of your soul will have remained dormant.
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Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable the other, who cries, makes it sacred.
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