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Anatole France Quotes: The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.
         

The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.


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Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.



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