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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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Jacques François-Anatole Thibault
François-Anatole Thibault
Anatole Thibault
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It is not customary to love what one has.
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True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.
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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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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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Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
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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.
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Until you have loved an animal, part of your soul will have remained dormant.
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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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A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.
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It is not easy to be a pretty woman without causing mischief.
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What we call happiness is what we do not know.
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Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.
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The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
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The future is a convenient place for dreams.
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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!
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.
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