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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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Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.
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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
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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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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
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Custom alone regulates morals.
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Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
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The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.
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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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