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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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Unhappiness does make people look stupid.
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War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
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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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Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.
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An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say 'truth' and you understand my meaning. For the beautiful words truth and justice need not to be defined in order to be understood in their true sense.
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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
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The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.
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Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.
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Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
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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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Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.
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Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
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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.
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Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first City.....Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future.
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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
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It is not easy to be a pretty woman without causing mischief.
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