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There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.

~Anatole France

Topics: Bargain Cheated Had Honest Honest People Merchant People Think Unless Very Who

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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

~Anatole France

Topics: Except Happy Ignorance Never Person Price Some

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The 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.

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Topics: Beg Bread Bridges Equality Law Majestic Poor Rich Sleep Steal Streets Well

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Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

~Anatole France

Topics: Chastity Sexual Strangest

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The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.

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Topics: Doth Fool He Himself Knows Man Think Wise Wise Man

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We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.

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Topics: About Best People Reproach Subject Talking Themselves Treat

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Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.

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Topics: Clothes Interested Like Men Never Not Interested Notice Only Wear Who Women Women Are

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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

~Anatole France

Topics: Boredom Despair Humanity Lies Perish Without Would

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Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

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Topics: Animal Defining Him Makes Man Out Rational Ways Which Worst

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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

~Anatole France

Topics: Everything Imagine Know Nothing

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Novelist

Born: April 16th, 1844

Died: October 12th, 1924

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