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Ah, cried Gavroche, what does this mean? It rains again! ...If this continues, I withdraw my subscription.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
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...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.
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Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.
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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
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The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man it can fix itself upon nothing which is more awful, more complex, more mysterious, or more infinite. There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
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First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.
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It is often our best friends who throw us down.
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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
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In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none.
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It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.
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No one can keep a secret better than a child.
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Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.
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No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.
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My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.
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For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.
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