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Better Quotes by Gustave Flaubert
- Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but…
- Exuberance is better than taste.
- The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.
- What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp…
- Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the…
- She did not believe that things could remain the same in different places, and since the portion of her life that lay behind her had…
- And indeed, what is better than to sit by one's fireside in the evening with a book, while the wind beats against the window and…
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