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Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary Quotes: Self-confidence depends on environment: one does not speak in the same tone in the drawing room than in the kitchen.
         

Self-confidence depends on environment: one does not speak in the same tone in the drawing room than in the kitchen.


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