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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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Suffering... We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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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 thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
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Universal peace will be realized, not because man will become better, but because a new order of things, a new science, new economic necessities, will impose peace.
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