"Dans la langue de la bourgeoisie, la grandeur des mots est en raison directe de la petitesse des sentiments."
— Goncourt brothers

January 1, 1970

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November 29, 1860; translation from Béatrix Le Wita (trans. J. A. Underwood) French Bourgeois Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) p. 53.