Gustave Flaubert Quote

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"Ne lisez pas comme des enfants pour vous amuser, ni comme les ambitieux dans le but de vous instruire Non lisez pour vivre"

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“Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times”

Gustave Flaubert

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