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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.

Alfred de Vigny

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Alfred de Vigny
Age: 66 †
Born: 1797
Born: March 27
Died: 1863
Died: September 17
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Alfred Victor de Vigny
Alfred Victor
comte de Vigny
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Hope

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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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History is a novel for which the people is the author.
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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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