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  1. Gustave Flaubert _ Bouvard and Pécuchet with The

    The more ideas they had the more they suffered.
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  2. Gustave Flaubert _ Bouvard and Pécuchet with The

    However, all this reading had disturbed their brains.
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  3. Gustave Flaubert _ Bouvard and Pécuchet with The

    Sometimes they opened a book and closed it again; what was the point? On other days they had the idea of tidying up the garden, but after a quarter of an hour they felt tired; or of looking at their farm, but they came back sick at heart; or doing household jobs, but Germaine cried out in protest; they gave up.
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  4. Gustave Flaubert _ Bouvard and Pécuchet with The

    Two men appeared. One came from the Bastille, the other from the Jardin des Plantes. The taller of the two, in a linen costume, walked with his hat pushed back, waistcoat undone and cravat in hand. The smaller one, whose body was enveloped in a brown frock-coat, had a peaked cap on his bent head. When they came to the middle of the boulevard they both sat down at the same moment on the same seat. Each took off his hat to mop his brow and put it beside him; and the smaller man noticed, written inside his neighbour's hat, ; while the latter easily made out the word , in the cap belonging to the individual in the frock-coat.
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