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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. ↗

— Anatole France

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I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life. ↗

— Anatole France

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Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water. ↗

— Anatole France

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The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces. ↗

— Anatole France

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What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation. ↗

— Anatole France

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To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him. ↗

— Potter Stewart

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The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority. ↗

— Marie de France

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Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It's strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

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A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him. ↗

— Brendan Francis

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From the time I was 16 and I had my own checking account, you'd think most young women would run out and buy clothes. No, I ran out and got myself a psychiatrist! ↗

— Genie Francis

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