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Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.
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Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.
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If you are stone, be magnetic if a plant, be sensitive but if you are human be love.
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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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England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.
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Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip.
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The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.
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