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Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.

Anatole France

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Anatole France (16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924), born Jacques Anatole François Thibault, was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. A member of the Académie française, he won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature in recognition of his literary achievements. He is widely believed to be the model for the narrator's literary idol "Bergotte" in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.

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Pen Names: Anatolis Fransas

Alternative Names: Jacques François-Anatole Thibault • François-Anatole Thibault • Anatole Thibault

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Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable. - Anatole France

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