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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
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state.
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The dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float upon the waters. These are his gods to whom he appeals at night with long-drawn howls.
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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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Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.
Anatole France
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Universal peace will be realized, not because man will become better, but because a new order of things, a new science, new economic necessities, will impose peace.
Anatole France
A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.
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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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A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.
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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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In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.
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It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
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It is by believing in roses that you make them bloom.
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We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Intelligent women always marry fools
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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
Anatole France
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
Anatole France
One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
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