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Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
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Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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