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Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.
Anatole France
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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
François-Anatole Thibault
Anatole Thibault
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Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
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When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.
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We live between two dense clouds the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.
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So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose. One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor in complaining about the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life.
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that it still has left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
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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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