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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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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.
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Distrust even Mathematics albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one grain of sand in the wheels is enough to put everything out of gear. One shudders to think to what disaster such a grain of sand may bring a Mathematical brain. Remember Pascal.
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People who don't count won't count.
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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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One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves.
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