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A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
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Silence is the wit of fools.
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An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
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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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There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
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Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.
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Dog! When we first met on the highway of life, we came from the two poles of creation.... What can be the meaning of the obscure love for me that has sprung up in your heart?
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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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Caress your phrase tenderly it will end by smiling at you.
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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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