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A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.
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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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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Distrust even Mathematics albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one grain of sand in the wheels is enough to put everything out of gear. One shudders to think to what disaster such a grain of sand may bring a Mathematical brain. Remember Pascal.
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In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.
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The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.
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The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
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Universal peace will be realized, not because man will become better, but because a new order of things, a new science, new economic necessities, will impose peace.
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Silence is the wit of fools.
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Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
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A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.
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The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
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The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
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Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.
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The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.
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Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.
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When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.
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The more you say, the less they remember.
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The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.
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Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.
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