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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue. - Anatole

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue. – 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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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster! – Anatole France

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Art
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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize until you have tried to make it precise. – Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism

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And see, no longer blinded by our eyes. – Rupert Brooke

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No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye. – Elizabeth Bowen, The House in Paris, 1935

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If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues? – John Churton Collins, Aphorisms in the English Review, 1914

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A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. – Leo Tolstoy

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