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God knows better than we do what we need.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.
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By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.
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God made only water, but man made wine.
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I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.
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People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.
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God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love.
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
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Art needs no spur beyond itself.
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