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France is great because she is France.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.
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One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.
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Nobody knows like a woman how to say things at the same time sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman this is all of Heaven.
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He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen.
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God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.
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