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Quote by Anatole France
It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural mor

It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil. – Anatole France

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

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No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign. – Anatole France

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I am convinced, the longer I live, that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose. – Mary Todd Lincoln

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There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats grapenuts on principle. – G.K. Chesterton

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The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it. – Goethe

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