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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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Jacques François-Anatole Thibault
François-Anatole Thibault
Anatole Thibault
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Our passions are ourselves.
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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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It is by believing in roses that you make them bloom.
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Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
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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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People who don't count won't count.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable the other, who cries, makes it sacred.
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I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
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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.
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The dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float upon the waters. These are his gods to whom he appeals at night with long-drawn howls.
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