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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