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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. - Gustave Flaubert

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Author's Biography:
Name: Gustave Flaubert
Born: 12 December 1821. Died: 8 May 1880
Profession: Novelist |

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