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The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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To rise at six, to dine at ten, To sup at six, to sleep at ten, Makes a man live for ten times ten.
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The English took the eagle and Austrians the eaglet. [Fr., L'Angleterre prit l'aigle, et l'Autriche l'aiglon.]
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To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
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The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood.
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Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.
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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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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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