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True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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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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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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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.
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I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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God, conquered, will become Satan Satan, conquering, will become God. May the fates spare me this terrible lot I love the Hell which formed my genius. I love the Earth where I have done some good, if it be possible to do any good in this fearful world where beings live but by rapine.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
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Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
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In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.
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Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.
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Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.
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The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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