Gustave Flaubert Quote

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"No leas como los niños para divertirte ni como los ambiciosos con el propósito de instrucción No leas para vivir"

Translations

“Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in”

Gustave Flaubert

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