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Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.
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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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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Sometimes one day in a difference place gives you more than ten years of a life at home.
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Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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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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What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
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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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Distrust even Mathematics albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one grain of sand in the wheels is enough to put everything out of gear. One shudders to think to what disaster such a grain of sand may bring a Mathematical brain. Remember Pascal.
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We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
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Change is the essence of life.
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The best sentence? The shortest.
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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
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A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.
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In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
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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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