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Caress your phrase tenderly it will end by smiling at you.

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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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Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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It is by believing in roses that you make them bloom.
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Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Justice is the sanction of established injustice.
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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
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It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.
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America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.
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I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world for there are always some whom one can love.
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A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.
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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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An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.'
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People who don't count won't count.
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God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves.
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I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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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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