"Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times."

Flaubert, Gustave · History and Historians · 2 fans >>
<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19079/">Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2517/">Flaubert, Gustave</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/history_and_historians/">History and Historians</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19782/">Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2517/">Flaubert, Gustave</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/humility/">Humility</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/30719/">All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2517/">Flaubert, Gustave</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/poetry_and_poets/">Poetry and Poets</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"Read in order to live."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4615/">Read in order to live..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2517/">Flaubert, Gustave</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/books_-_reading/">Books - Reading</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/8712/">The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2517/">Flaubert, Gustave</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/courage/">Courage</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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