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In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.

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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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We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Justice is the sanction of established injustice.
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The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.
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The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.
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