"When a history book contains no lies it…" — Anatole France
"When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious."
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164 Quotes by Anatole France
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- We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
- God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves.
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- A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.
- It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no…
- What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.
- There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.
- The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the…
- A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
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- The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.
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