“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.”
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“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”
“The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.”
“The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious”
“It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. -Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924)”
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