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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.

~Anatole France

Topics: Afterwards Art Awakening Curiosity Minds Natural Only Purpose Satisfying Teaching Whole Young

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The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.

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Topics: Bitter Charming Delicious Everything Frightful Horrible Life Sweet Truth Truth Is

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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 know and what you don't.

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Topics: Able Being Between Committed Differentiate Education Even How How Much Know Memory Much You

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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

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Topics: Fortune Good Good Fortune Innocence Most Often Virtue

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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

~Anatole France

Topics: Courage Gives Good Life Owe Pity Suffering Us Value Virtues

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Silence is the wit of fools.

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Topics: Fools Silence Wit

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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

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Topics: Another Eternal Know Life Short Short Life Want Which Will

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The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

~Anatole France

Topics: Another Average Average Man Does Forever Know Last Life Man Wants Which Will

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Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

~Anatole France

Topics: Between Distinction Evil Good Good And Evil Makes Nature Principles She

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

~Anatole France

Topics: Art Enough Instinct Love

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Novelist

Born: April 16th, 1844

Died: October 12th, 1924

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