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In the language of the bourgeoisie, the grandeur of the words is in direct proportion to the pettiness of the sentiments.
• November 29, 1860; translation from Béatrix Le Wita (trans. J. A. Underwood) French Bourgeois Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) p. 53.
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Dans la langue de la bourgeoisie, la grandeur des mots est en raison directe de la petitesse des sentiments.

— Goncourt brothers

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Dans la langue de la bourgeoisie, la grandeur des mots est en raison directe de la petitesse des sentiments." in the context of "In the language of the bourgeoisie, the grandeur of the words is in direct proportion to the pettiness of the sentiments.
• November 29, 1860; translation from Béatrix Le Wita (trans. J. A. Underwood) French Bourgeois Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) p. 53." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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About Goncourt brothers

The brothers Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt (May 26 1822 – July 16 1896) and Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt (December 17 1830 – June 20 1870) were French writers who, in a lifelong collaboration, produced a number of histories, novels and works of art criticism. They are now chiefly famous for their Journals, kept from 1851 to 1895.