Anatole France quote about time from The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard - Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
 Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881). copy citation

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Author Anatole France
Source The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Topic time kindness
Date 1881
Language English
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Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2123/2123-h/2123-h.htm

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“«I cannot read your books, because they are written only for scholars; but I like very much to have you talk to me, because you know how to give interest to the most ordinary things in life. And talk to me just as you would talk to an old woman. This morning I found three grey threads in my hair.»
«Let them come without regret, Madame,» I replied. «Time deals gently only with those who take it gently. And when in some years more you will have a silvery fringe under your black fillet, you will be reclothed with a new beauty, less vivid but more touching than the first; and you will find your husband admiring your grey tresses as much as he did that black curl which you gave him when about to be married, and which he preserves in a locket as a thing sacred….” source
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