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Sentimental Education Quotes

The workers, truckling to every government, worshipping Authority so fervently that he would have paid for the privilege of selling himself.[Les ouvriers, tous les régimes, chérissant le pouvoir d’un tel amour, qu’il aurait payé pour se vendre.]

Source:(Penguin Books, ed. 1964), Part III, Chapter IV, Page 373
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Gustave Flaubert (Sentimental Education Quotes)
  • Book: Sentimental Education
  • Writer: Gustave Flaubert
  • Genre: Fiction, Realism
  • Published: 1869
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