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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United States of Europe, let us be the continental federation, let us be European liberty, let us be universal peace!
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The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.
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