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Change is the essence of life.
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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Anatole Thibault
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An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
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The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.
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America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.
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Silence is the wit of fools.
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Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.
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What we call happiness is what we do not know.
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The heart errs like the head its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.
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A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows.
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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 law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.
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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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God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves.
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It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state.
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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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Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.
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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
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Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire.
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Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
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Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable the other, who cries, makes it sacred.
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