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Quote by Anatole France
The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up wha

The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference. – Anatole France

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That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. – Anatole France

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Fear
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Anatole France
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War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war. – Anatole France

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War
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When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. – Clifton Fadiman

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The sermon is now the true poppy of literature. – David Swing

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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. – Mark Twain

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What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us! – James Russell Lowell

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