Quote by Anatole France
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I h

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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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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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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Miscellaneous
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. – Anatole France

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Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes. – John LeCarre

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There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Books

Child! Do not throw this book about;
Refrain from the unholy pleasure
Of cutting all the pictures out!
Preserve it as your chiefest treasure. – Hilaire Belloc

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Books

When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign — a bad sign mostly for literature. But it is also a bad sign when they dont want to hear the word mentioned. – Italo Calvino

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Books

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In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change. – Hillary Clinton

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