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We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.
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Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.
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Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.
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It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.
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At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry
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No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.
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It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.
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Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.
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A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze?
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To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.
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Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.
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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
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A war between Europeans is a civil war.
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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
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Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.
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And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity in a girl, it is boldness.
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