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Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood.
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I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.
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Let us fear the worst, but work with faith the best will always take care of itself.
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