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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. ↗

— Anatole France

#irony #joy #reflection #wisdom

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit. ↗

— Anatole France

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No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign. ↗

— Anatole France

#chance #did #ever #free #god

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

— Anatole France

#defining #him #makes #man #out

Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was never before heard, for the whole city was moved. ↗

— Marie de France

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Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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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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But sweetly and discreetly love passes from person to person, from heart to heart, or it is nothing worth. ↗

— Marie de France

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Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously. ↗

— Marie de France

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Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name. ↗

— Marie de France

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