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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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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 earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose. One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor in complaining about the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life.
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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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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A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
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An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.'
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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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It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
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The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
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The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.
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The impotence of God is infinite.
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There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.
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The more you say, the less they remember.
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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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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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The future is a convenient place for dreams.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
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Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
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