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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

There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things. – Gustave Flaubert

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Art
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Gustave Flaubert
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Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant. – Gustave Flaubert

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Nature
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Gustave Flaubert
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The worlds battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history. – Henry Ward Beecher

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History

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. – Mark Twain

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History

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him. – Herbert Hoover

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History

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know. – Harry S. Truman

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Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools. – Henry David Thoreau

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Learning lines is my biggest challenge. – Tim Meadows

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It is well to know something of the manners of various peoples, in order more sanely to judge our own, and that we do not think that everything against our modes is ridiculous, and against reason, as those who have seen nothing are accustomed to think. РRen̩ Descartes, Discourse on the Method, 1637 (translated)

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Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe. – Ted Nugent

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