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In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.
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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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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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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
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The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
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It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.
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We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives for at least a time is a necessary skill for being happy.]
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The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.
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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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There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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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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What we call happiness is what we do not know.
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America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.
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It is by believing in roses that you make them bloom.
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The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
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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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He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.
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