“By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming idiotic one’s self.”
Gustave Flaubert, quoted in Irving Babbitt,
Rousseau and Romanticism
(P.S. Can anybody out there supply an exact citation for the original source of this quote?)
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
“By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming idiotic one’s self.”
Gustave Flaubert, quoted in Irving Babbitt,
Rousseau and Romanticism
(P.S. Can anybody out there supply an exact citation for the original source of this quote?)