Author: Anatole France

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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

- Anatole France

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

- Anatole France

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

- 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.

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

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

- Anatole France

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

- Anatole France

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

- Anatole France

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

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

- Anatole France

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

- Anatole France

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