Gustave Flaubert · Translated by Jacques Barzun

The Dictionary of

Received Ideas

Le Dictionnaire des Idées Reçues

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Letter I

Italy

Should be seen immediately after marriage. Is very disappointing—not nearly so beautiful as people say.

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Ice-cream men

All Neapolitans.

Ices

It is dangerous to eat them.

Idealism

The best of the philosophic systems.

Ideals

Perfectly useless.

Ideologists

Every newspaperman is an ideologist.

Idiots

Those who differ with you.

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