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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
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Anatole Thibault
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America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.
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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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The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.
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It is not easy to be a pretty woman without causing mischief.
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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
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A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.
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A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.
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Silence is the wit of fools.
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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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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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If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.
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Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
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The Future is hidden even from those who are forging it.
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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