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Anatole France

"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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"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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"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."

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"We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal."
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