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England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Love partakes of the soul itself. it is of the same nature. like it, it is a divine spark, like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, imperishable, it is the point of fire which is within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can limit and nothing can extinguish.
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She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.
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God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.
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I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.
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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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There is but one way of refusing To-morrow, that is to die.
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During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.
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Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning enemy, never.
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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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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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The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.
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I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World.
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It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
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Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
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