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Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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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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