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31 JULY 1868 ; Days like these

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20070731
Author:REBECCA ARMSTRONG

GEORGE SAND, the French novelist, writes in a letter to Gustave Flaubert: "You worry me when you tell me that your book will blame the patriots for everything that goes wrong. Is that really so? And then the victims! It is quite enough to be undone by one's own fault without having one's own foolishness thrown in one's teeth. Have pity! There are so many fine spirits among them just the same! Christianity has been a fad, and I confess that in every age it is a lure when one sees only the tender side of it; it wins the heart. One has to consider the evil it does in order to get rid of it. But ...

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