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Caress your phrase tenderly it will end by smiling at you.
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
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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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Unhappiness does make people look stupid.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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It is not customary to love what one has.
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Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
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In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing in democracies it is the only sacred thing.
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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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It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.
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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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Change is the essence of life.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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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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The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.
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I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.
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In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.
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A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows.
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