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

— Anatole France

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An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind. ↗

— Anatole France

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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

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Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest. ↗

— Anatole France

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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. ↗

— Anatole France

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Have common sense and stick to the point. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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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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