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“Remember what Anatole France said about the dog masturbating on your leg--'Sure, it's honest, but who needs it?”

Needs Said Remember Honest Dog Legs France

Author:Richard Yates

“"They order," said I, "this matter better in France."”

Said Matter Order France

Author:Laurence Sterne

“In France the men all live in cafes, the children are all put out to nurse, and the women, saving the respect of mademoiselle -- well, the less said about them the better.”

Men Wells Children Said He Man Saving France Nurse Cafes

Book:The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol

Source: The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol

“A man thinks he is dying for his country," said Anatole France, "but he is dying for a few industrialists." But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.”

Thinking Men Said Country Dies Too Much Dying France Tangible Saying Too Much

Book:Selected Essays: 1934-1943

Source: Selected Essays: 1934-1943

“From that point on, the extraordinary system of spies and informers which has played an important part in the political work of the French state into our own time took shape. (Sartine, who became lieutenant general de police in 1759, is supposed to have said to Louis XV, "Sire, when three people are chatting in the street one of them is surely my man.") Eighteenth-century police manuals like those of Colquhoun in England or Lemaire in France are no less than general treatises on the government's full repertoire of domestic regulation, coercion, and surveillance.”

Source: The Formation of national States in Western Europe