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When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.
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The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man it can fix itself upon nothing which is more awful, more complex, more mysterious, or more infinite. There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
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Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated that does not prevent them from being of use.
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Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.
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And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve his scheme The best as the worst are futile here: We wake at the self-same point of the dream, All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.
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where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice?
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. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.
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Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.
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