Gustave Flaubert

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Quote link. Other quotes about: ignorance history time: "Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times."
Quote link. Other quotes about: ignorance history time people: "Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this."
Quote link.: "Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth."
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