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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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Unhappiness does make people look stupid.
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The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them
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A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.
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Dog! When we first met on the highway of life, we came from the two poles of creation.... What can be the meaning of the obscure love for me that has sprung up in your heart?
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
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It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
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The best sentence? The shortest.
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We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
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Justice is the sanction of established injustice.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
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Custom alone regulates morals.
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Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
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The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
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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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