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Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.
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England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.
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Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.
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Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.
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The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple.
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In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: “Help me!
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In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead man will live. He will possess something higher than all these-a great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven.
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