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Quote by Gustave Flaubert
The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. - Gustave Fla

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. – Gustave Flaubert

Other quotes by Gustave Flaubert

All ones inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. – Gustave Flaubert

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

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work
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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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Other Quotes from
Humankind
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The small percentage of dogs that bite people is monumental proof that the dog is the most benign, forgiving creature on earth. – W.R. Koehler, The Koehler Method of Dog Training

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Humankind

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Humankind

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated His ability. – Oscar Wilde

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Humankind

Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes. – William Winwood Reade

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Humankind

Random Quotes

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens. – Michel de Montaigne, translated

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Religion

One of the things that is not so good is that a decision was made long ago about the size of an IP address – 32 bits. At the time it was a number much larger than anyone could imagine ever having that many computers but it turned out to be to small. – Jon Postel

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Computers

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on. – Richard Cecil

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Will, Willpower

I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment… rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood. – Franz Liszt

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Faith