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He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.
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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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
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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 greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
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It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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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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Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
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I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
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Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Unhappiness does make people look stupid.
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