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Misattributed quotes — Anatole France

1844–1924 France

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The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

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Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when He did not want to sign.

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Life is too short, and Proust is too long.

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No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, none ever will.

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Can any thing in this world be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth can come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

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Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

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Silence is the wit of fools, and one of the virtues of the wise.

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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem — and in my esteem age is not estimable.

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An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Anatole France (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.