Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of some — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of some — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of some — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of some — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of some — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of some — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of some — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of some — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of some — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of some — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of some — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of some — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of some — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of some — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of some — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of some — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of some — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of some — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of some — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of some — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of some — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of some — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of some — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of some — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of some — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of some — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of some — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of some — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of some — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of some — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
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Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of somebody's wishing to become, of all things, a Professor of Literature.

— Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
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