A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.Anatole France
We live too much in books and not enough in nature, and we are very much like the simpleton of a Pliny the Younger, who went on studying a Greek author while before his eyes Vesuvius was overwhelming five cities beneath the ashes.
Anatole France
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
Anatole France
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
Anatole France
You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner by planing down your sentences
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