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The entire dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of bourgeois stupidity.[Tout le rêve de la démocratie est d’élever le prolétaire au niveau de bêtise du bourgeois.]

Source:Letter to George Sand (October 7, 1871), The Letter of Gustave Flaubert (1857-1880), (ed. 1980), Page 183
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