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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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In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing in democracies it is the only sacred thing.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.
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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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The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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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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There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.
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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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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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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.
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What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
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The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.
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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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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 fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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People who don't count won't count.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
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