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Quote by Anatole France
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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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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