Gustave Flaubert · Translated by Jacques Barzun
Le Dictionnaire des Idées Reçues
Letter I
Always "notorious." The more incompetent one is, the more ambitious one ought to be.
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All Neapolitans.
It is dangerous to eat them.
The best of the philosophic systems.
Perfectly useless.
Every newspaperman is an ideologist.
Those who differ with you.