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Letter "A" » Anatole France Quotes
«There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant»
«We live too much in books and not enough in nature, and we are very much like the simpleton of a Pliny the Younger, who went on studying a Greek author while before his eyes Vesuvius was overwhelming five cities beneath the ashes»
Author: Anatole France
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In books, overwhelming, Pliny, simpleton, simpletons, studying, The Ashes, very much like, Vesuvius
«The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere»
«The finest words in the world are only vain sounds, if you cannot comprehend them»
Author: Anatole France
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comprehend, finest, sounds, The Finest, vain
«That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.»
«A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.»
«Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.»
«Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.»
Author: Anatole France
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believers, constructing, devout, illnesses, safeguarded, spares, The Task
«The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it»
«To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.»
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