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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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Paris
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Jacques François-Anatole Thibault
François-Anatole Thibault
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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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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.
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It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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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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Unhappiness does make people look stupid.
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Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.
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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy 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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What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
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To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.
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It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
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I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.
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What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.
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The future is a convenient place for dreams.
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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows.
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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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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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