There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion; and through their manners were suave, one could sense beneath them that special brutality which comes from the habit of breaking down half-hearted resistances that keep one fit and tickle one's vanity-the handling of blooded horses, the pursuit of loose women.
( Gustave Flaubert )
[ Madame Bovary ]
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