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 | Source/Notes: In French: "Une bêtise répétée par trente-six millions de bouches ne cesse pas d'être une bêtise." - Literal translation: "A nonsense repeated by thirty-six million mouths still a nonsense" - From: "Histoire contemporaine, Volume 4: Monsieur Bergeret a Paris" (1901), p. 168. This quote is similar to izquotes.com/quote/251378 |
| “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.” ―Anatole France Source/Notes: Le Lys rouge [The Red Lily] (1894), Chapter VII |
| Source/Notes: Works of Anatole France (2010 edition), MobileReference - ISBN: 9781607785422 |
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Anatole France
Born: April 16, 1844
Died: October 12, 1924 (aged 80)
Nationality: French
Occupation: Novelist
Bio: Anatole France , born François-Anatole Thibault,, was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. He was born in Paris, and died in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire. He was a successful novelist, with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters.
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