A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. – Anatole France
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are those that other folks have lent me. – Anatole France

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. – Anatole France
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are those that other folks have lent me. – Anatole France
There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant. – Anatole France
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
History shows that there is nothing so easy to enslave and nothing so hard to emancipate as ignorance, hence it becomes the double enemy of civilization. By its servility it is the prey of tyranny, and by its credulity it is the foe of enlightenment. – Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays