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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

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An education isnt how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. Its being able to differentiate between what you know and what you dont. – Anatole France

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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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The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything. – Anatole France

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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. – Oscar Wilde

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Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art. – Frederic Chopin

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To us, who live in the nineteenth century, any century is a suitable subject for art except our own. The only beautiful things are things that do not concern us. – Oscar Wilde, “The Decay of Lying: A Dialogue,” in The Nineteenth Century: A Mont

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I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few. – William Morris

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Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these. – John Burroughs

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It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. – Jerome K. Jerome, The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

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As you know from school, its when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, youve done your best. – Alice Walker

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