Quote by Anatole France
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric o

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

Other quotes by Anatole France

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working in just the same way, you learn to love by loving. – Anatole France

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work
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The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever. – Anatole France

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Greed
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Diplomacy: the art of restraining power. – Henry A. Kissinger

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Art

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Good architecture lets nature in. – Mario Pei (1901–1978)

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The art of interpretation is not to play what is written. – Pablo Casals

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Love is not about grand intentions. It is about small attentions. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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You know, the interesting thing about having traveled around the country as much as I have, and I think its sort of inadvertently what made me come out or at least begin doing things within the community and thinking more about that, was that I get to travel quite a bit. – Lesley Gore

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In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry. – Margaret Laurence

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