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Gustave Flaubert Quotes

One s pride, if it is well founded, makes up for everything else. [L’orgueil remplace tout quand il est assis sur une large base.]

Source:Letter to Alfred LePoittevin (May 13, 1845), The Letter of Gustave Flaubert (1830-1857), (ed. 1980), Page 30
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