exaggerated speeches hiding mediocre affections must be discounted; as if the fullness of the soul did not sometimes overflow in the emptiest metaphors, since no one can ever give the precise measure of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sorrows; and since human speech is like a cracked kettle {caldron}, upon which we beat out tunes fit to make bears dance when our aim is to move the stars to pity.
( Gustave Flaubert )
[ Madame Bovary ]
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