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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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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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I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.
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It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
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The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.
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The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.
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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
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Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
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To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.
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A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.
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The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
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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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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.
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It is by believing in roses that you make them bloom.
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You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.
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Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.
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There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned
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The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.
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