Anatole France

A poet, journalist, and novelist.

1. A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.

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2. History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

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3. I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the wisdom of indifference.

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4. If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act, than of a cruel one.

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5. It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

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6. Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

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7. Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

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8. Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes.
   Men who like women never notice what they wear.

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9. People who have no weaknesses are terrible.
   There is no way of taking advantage of them.

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10. To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

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