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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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The best sentence? The shortest.
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God, conquered, will become Satan Satan, conquering, will become God. May the fates spare me this terrible lot I love the Hell which formed my genius. I love the Earth where I have done some good, if it be possible to do any good in this fearful world where beings live but by rapine.
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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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What men call civilization is the condition of present customs what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.
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A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
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What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
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No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
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What we call happiness is what we do not know.
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For the majority of people , though they do not know what to do with this life , long for another that shall have no end .
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The more you say, the less they remember.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first City.....Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future.
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Unhappiness does make people look stupid.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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