The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
ANATOLE FRANCEThe books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
ANATOLE FRANCENever lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
ANATOLE FRANCEIf we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
ANATOLE FRANCEWe have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
ANATOLE FRANCEThe average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
ANATOLE FRANCETime deals gently only with those who take it gently.
ANATOLE FRANCEIt is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
ANATOLE FRANCEPeople who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
ANATOLE FRANCEAll the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
ANATOLE FRANCETo be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
ANATOLE FRANCENine tenths of education is encouragement.
ANATOLE FRANCEYet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
ANATOLE FRANCEThe 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.
ANATOLE FRANCEMan is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
ANATOLE FRANCEMan is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
ANATOLE FRANCEUntil one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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