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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.
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In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing in democracies it is the only sacred thing.
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God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves.
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In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.
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Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.
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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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In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.
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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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The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
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A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
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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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Dog! When we first met on the highway of life, we came from the two poles of creation.... What can be the meaning of the obscure love for me that has sprung up in your heart?
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It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
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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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The Future is hidden even from those who are forging it.
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It is not customary to love what one has.
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Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.
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Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.
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Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.
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