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Quote by Gustave Flaubert
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. - Gus

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. – Gustave Flaubert

Other quotes by Gustave Flaubert

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution. – Gustave Flaubert

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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. – Gustave Flaubert

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What is history but a fable agreed upon? – Napoleon Bonaparte

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The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice! – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Everybody knows theyre on the Obama team: There isnt vice presidential vs. presidential division, theres not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history. – Rahm Emanuel

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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. – Bertrand Russell

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Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. – Abraham Lincoln

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No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesnt… you work out something. Its yours. You dont have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas. – LeRoy Neiman

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Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile. – Jean Giraudoux

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It helps to be able to be alone. Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I dont do that. Ask my ex-wife. – Dirk Benedict

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