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In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.

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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
Biographer
Critic
Librarian
Literary Critic
Novelist
Poet
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Paris
France
Jacques François-Anatole Thibault
François-Anatole Thibault
Anatole Thibault
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Must
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Digested
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Appetite
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There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.
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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.
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Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.
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Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.
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A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.
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I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first City.....Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future.
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Suffering... We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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