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51. An imprecise quotation from Matthew 11: 25, Luke 10: 21.
52. Madame Bovary, by French novelist Gustave Flaubert (1821-80), caused a scandal when it was first published in 1856 because of its frank treatment of adultery; the heroine commits suicide in the end. Dostoevsky read the novel in the summer of 1867 and admired it.