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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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First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.
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Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.
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To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing my conscience.
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If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion if you leave it with good will, gentleness and peace, you are better than any of us.
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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement-in a word, with more renunciation than you care for-and so you flee the contagion.
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There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.
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God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.
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God made the water but men made the wine.
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To love is the half of to believe.
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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
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The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible.
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Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.
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