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People who don't count won't count.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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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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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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I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.
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No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Anatole France
Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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It is not easy to be a pretty woman without causing mischief.
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It is not customary to love what one has.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
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God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves.
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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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Play is hand-to-hand encounter with Fate.
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For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
Anatole France
Until you have loved an animal, part of your soul will have remained dormant.
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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.
Anatole France
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.
Anatole France
The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.
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It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.
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