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Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.
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Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
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I was always a lover of soft-winged things.
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He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.
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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist it is by the ideal that we live.
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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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The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever.
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When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.
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The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird, doubtless lovelorn, was singing his heart out at the top of a tall tree.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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