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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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Librarian
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Paris
France
Jacques François-Anatole Thibault
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
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We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
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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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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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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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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.
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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
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In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing in democracies it is the only sacred thing.
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The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
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Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
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The impotence of God is infinite.
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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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That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
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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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