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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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What men call civilization is the condition of present customs what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.
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Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.
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In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.
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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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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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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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It is not customary to love what one has.
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A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
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I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world for there are always some whom one can love.
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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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What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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There is only one science, love, one riches, love, only one policy, love. To make love is all the law and the prophets.
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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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Justice is the sanction of established injustice.
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In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.
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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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