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God made the water but men made the wine.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Popularity? It's glory's small change.
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A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood... A day will come when we shall see... the United States of America and the United States of Europe face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas.
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It has become necessary to call the attention of European governments to a fact which is apparently so insignificant that the governments seem not to notice it. The fact is this: an entire people is being annihilated. Where? In Europe. Are there witnesses? One witness, the entire world. Do the governments see it? No.
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It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.
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To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this, no more do the religious. These two words express the two sides of the same fact, which is the infinite. Religion-Science, this is the future of the human mind.
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If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.
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Do not economize on the hymeneal rites do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping.
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Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?
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When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.
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God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.
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He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.
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God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.
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Never laugh at those who suffer suffer sometimes those who laugh.
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For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.
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England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.
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What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.
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