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In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
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Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.
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The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
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