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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.
Category: Books and Reading Author: 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.
Category: Change Author: Anatole France
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Category: Conformity Author: Anatole France
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Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Category: God Author: Anatole France
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When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.
Category: History Author: Anatole France Source: The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Category: Ignorance Author: Anatole France
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he 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.
Category: Justice Author: 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.
Category: Labor Author: 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.
Category: Literature Author: Anatole France
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I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.
Category: Perfection Author: Anatole France
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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
Category: Perspective Author: Anatole France
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
Category: Travel Author: Anatole France
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