| A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. |
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- Anatole France |
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| When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious. |
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- Anatole France |
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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 do know and what you don't. |
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- Anatole France |
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| Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not wish to sign. |
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- Anatole France |
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| Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue. |
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- Anatole France |
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| If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. |
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- Anatole France |
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| Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. |
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- Anatole France |
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| It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. |
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- Anatole France |
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| The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. |
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- Anatole France |
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| Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream. |
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- Anatole France |
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| To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. |
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- Anatole France |
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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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- Anatole France |
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| The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference. |
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- Anatole France |
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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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- Anatole France |
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| When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. |
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- Anatole France |
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| Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. |
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- Anatole France |
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| All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. |
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- Anatole France |
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| I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being. |
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- Anatole France |
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