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The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius.

Victor Hugo

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated that does not prevent them from being of use.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.
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