Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fin — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fin — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fin — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fin — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fin — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
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Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fin

— Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
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If you want to know the real character of man, intentionally and timely give him the test of 3d’s; delay, denial and dis — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment. — Evan Esar
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope. — Ambrose Bierce
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. — Thomas Hardy
How disappointment tracks the steps of hope. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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