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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.

Gustave Flaubert

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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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