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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.
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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
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Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed relic of the ancient economy of the gift, and the time freely given to people dear to you actually creates magical abundance.
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Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows.
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He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.
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A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.
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Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.
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God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
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It is often our best friends who throw us down.
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Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.
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Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible.
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The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.
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