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

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. – Gustave Flaubert

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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. – Gustave Flaubert

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Happiness
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Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom. – Gustave Flaubert

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Other Quotes from
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After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity. – George Ade

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Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. – Nicolas Chamfort

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There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history. – James Lovelock

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There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. – Theodore Roosevelt

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History

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