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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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America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.
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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
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Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first City.....Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future.
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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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The Future is hidden even from those who are forging it.
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Justice is the sanction of established injustice.
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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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He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.
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