Gustave Flaubert · Translated by Jacques Barzun
Le Dictionnaire des Idées Reçues
Letter S
To write up the Salon is a good beginning in literature; it allows a man to cut a figure.
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It is sacrilege to cut down a tree.
The combination is really very easy to outwit.
Old wives' tale.
Ate nothing but delicatessen on Good Friday.
Island famous for its rock.
Upsetting it brings bad luck.