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We teachers make the road, others will make the journey.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.
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You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.
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Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.
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Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.
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Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.
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There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
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But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
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There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.
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To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.
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The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.
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The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most.
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing my conscience.
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A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us. Nobody loves the light like the blind man.
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Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?
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