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It is not customary to love what one has.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
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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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I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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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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Custom alone regulates morals.
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Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.
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Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable the other, who cries, makes it sacred.
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God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves.
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Silence is the wit of fools.
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