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• To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price on conjectures.
  --Anatole France, from The Revolt of the Angel...
• A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. --Anatole France
• To be willing to die for an ideal is to set a rather high price on conjecture. -- Oscar Wilde (?)
• It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. -- Anatole France
• All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy
  for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselve...
• On croit mourir pour la patrie, on meurt pour des industriels.
  [You believe you're dying for the country -- you die for some industrialists....
• If a million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. -- Anatole France
• Innocence, most often, is good fortune and not a virtue. -- Anatole France
• It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot. -- Anatole France