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...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope!
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God put in man thought society, action nature, revery.
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And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve his scheme The best as the worst are futile here: We wake at the self-same point of the dream, All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.
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