When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
ANATOLE FRANCEIf 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
More Anatole France Quotes
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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.
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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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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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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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