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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
François-Anatole Thibault
Anatole Thibault
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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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Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
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Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.
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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
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I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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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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The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.
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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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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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To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.
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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
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Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
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For the majority of people , though they do not know what to do with this life , long for another that shall have no end .
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The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.
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Justice is the sanction of established injustice.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives for at least a time is a necessary skill for being happy.]
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