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A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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God secludes Himself but the thinker listens at the door.
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It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.
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Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.
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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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Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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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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The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
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Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.
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