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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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More quotes by Anatole France
You think you are dying for your country you die for the industrialists.
Anatole France
It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.
Anatole France
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Anatole France
Unhappiness does make people look stupid.
Anatole France
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.'
Anatole France
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Anatole France
In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.
Anatole France
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
Anatole France
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them
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We live between two dense clouds the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.
Anatole France
We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that it still has left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
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The Future is hidden even from those who are forging it.
Anatole France
The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.
Anatole France
The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.
Anatole France
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.
Anatole France
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
Anatole France
Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.
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