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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.
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 greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
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I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.
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The impotence of God is infinite.
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The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.
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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
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God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves.
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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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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.
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I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world for there are always some whom one can love.
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The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.
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True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
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So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.
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