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It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
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In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.
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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 dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float upon the waters. These are his gods to whom he appeals at night with long-drawn howls.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.
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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
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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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It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.
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It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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Suffering... We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.
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It is not easy to be a pretty woman without causing mischief.
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Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.
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Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
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The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
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