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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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It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state.
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The more you say, the less they remember.
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It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
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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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Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.
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He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.
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You think you are dying for your country you die for the industrialists.
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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
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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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A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows.
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It is not easy to be a pretty woman without causing mischief.
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We thank God for having created this world, and praise Him for having made another, quite different one, where the wrongs of this one are corrected.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Silence is the wit of fools.
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It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.
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