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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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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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True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.
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I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.
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The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.
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You think you are dying for your country you die for the industrialists.
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Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.
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It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
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A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows.
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The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.
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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
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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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Justice is the sanction of established injustice.
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That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
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A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.
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A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.
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In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.
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Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
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I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
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It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.
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For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.
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