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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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He who despairs is wrong.
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We teachers make the road, others will make the journey.
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Love is the salutation of the angel to the stars
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A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.
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Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.
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A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.
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A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger it is the woman who makes the man go off.
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I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.
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Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
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Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.
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Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.
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