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Your Quotes for 16 April 2006 - Anatole France

Jacques Anatole François Thibault was born at Paris on this day in 1844. The son of a bookseller, he learned to love reading early but found school difficult and failed his baccalaureate exams several times before getting his degree. His career centered around books, assisting his father in the store, editing, writing a little poetry, serving as librarian to the French senate, spent a little time in the army, and was a literary critic. He wrote a weekly column, stories, and his first novel was published in 1881 under the name Anatole France. His literary output had significant impact, as demonstrated when the Roman church listed him in the Index of Forbidden Works in 1920, and the Nobel Committee awarded him the prize for literature the next year.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.

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

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folk have lent to me.

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
     - All from Anatole France, 1844 - 1924

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