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By working one can bend fortune. She is fond of crafty men.

Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert
Age: 58 †
Born: 1821
Born: December 12
Died: 1880
Died: May 8
Novelist
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Flaubert
Fortune
Working
Men
Crafty
Bend
Fond

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