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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

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest. – Gustave Flaubert

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Art
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Gustave Flaubert
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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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Age
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Gustave Flaubert
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Other Quotes from
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He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed. – Lech Walesa

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History

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world. – James K. Polk

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History

A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, Uncle Toms Cabin and, in modern drama, Larry Kramers The Normal Heart. – Tony Kushner

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History

My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness werent created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969. – Camille Paglia

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History

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I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland. – Islom Karimov

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Life doesnt imitate art, it imitates bad television. – Woody Allen

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My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film. – Vin Diesel

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