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Custom alone regulates morals.
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 books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire.
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Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
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A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows.
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That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
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God, conquered, will become Satan Satan, conquering, will become God. May the fates spare me this terrible lot I love the Hell which formed my genius. I love the Earth where I have done some good, if it be possible to do any good in this fearful world where beings live but by rapine.
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Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that it still has left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
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It is not easy to be a pretty woman without causing mischief.
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I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.
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It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
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It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
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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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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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In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing in democracies it is the only sacred thing.
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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop without training.
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It is by believing in roses that you make them bloom.
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It is not customary to love what one has.
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