Anatole France - People Quotes

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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those that other people have lent me.

Anatole France
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

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For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.

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Imitation lies at the root of most human actions. A respectable person is one who conforms to custom. People are called good when they do as others do.

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If thirty-six million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Sometimes misquoted as: If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

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Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.

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Penguinia gloried in its wealth. Those who produced the things necessary for life, wanted them; those who did not produce them had more than enough. "But these," as a member of the Institute said, "are necessary economic fatalities." The great Penguin people had no longer either traditions, intellectual culture, or arts. The progress of civilisation manifested itself among them by murderous industry, infamous speculation, and hideous luxury. Its capital assumed, as did all the great cities of the time, a cosmopolitan and financial character. An immense and regular ugliness reigned within it. The country enjoyed perfect tranquillity. It had reached its zenith.

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We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.

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It is by acts, and not by ideas that people live.

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You seem to have dreamt on the white stone, in the midst of the people of dreams, since you dreamt so long a dream in the course of so short a night.

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I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love.

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