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Quotes from Penguin Island — Anatole France

1844–1924 France

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Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.

Penguin Island (1908)

Drink! The flies have not spoilt my vintage; the vines were dry before they came.

Penguin Island (1908)

For the moment the peril was nowhere and yet everywhere. The majority remained solid; but the leaders became stiff and exacting.

Penguin Island (1908)

When the baptism of the penguins was known in Paradise, it caused neither joy nor sorrow, but an extreme surprise. The Lord himself was embarrassed. He gathered an assembly of clerics and doctors, and asked them whether they regarded the baptism as valid.

Penguin Island (1908)

Mael, a scion of a royal family of Cambria, was sent in his ninth year to the Abbey of Yvern so that he might there study both sacred and profane learning. At the age of fourteen he renounced his patrimony and took a vow to serve the Lord. His time was divided, according to the rule, between the singing of hymns, the study of grammar, and the meditation of eternal truths.

Penguin Island (1908)

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