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There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.
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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The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.
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Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.
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The future is a convenient place for dreams.
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The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop without training.
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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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You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.
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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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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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We thank God for having created this world, and praise Him for having made another, quite different one, where the wrongs of this one are corrected.
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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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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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I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.
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There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
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Justice is the sanction of established injustice.
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Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
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