Quote by Anatole France
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. - Anatole

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. – Anatole France

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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues. – Anatole France

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The dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float upon the waters. These are his gods to whom he appeals at night with long-drawn howls. – Anatole France

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Dogs
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Only men who are not interested in women are interested in womens clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear. – Anatole France

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Men
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Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue. – James Buchan

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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise. – Quintus Ennius

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Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom. – Mary Astell

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I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom. – Nina Totenberg

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Let us leave the beautiful women to men with no imagination. – Marcel Proust, Albertine disparue, 1925

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People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. Theres an immediacy of this day and age that doesnt lend itself to being committed to anything. – Emily Blunt

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