"Tout le rêve de la démocratie est d'élever le prolétaire au niveau de bêtise du bourgeois."
— Gustave Flaubert

January 1, 1970

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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity. (4 or 5 October 1871)