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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
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Do not economize on the hymeneal rites do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping.
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The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most.
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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
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I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
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In the domain of art there is no light without heat.
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The wind of revolutions is not tractable.
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Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
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Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.
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Look not at the face, young girl, look at the heart. The heart of a handsome young man is often deformed. There are hearts in which love does not keep. Young girl, the pine is not beautiful it is not beautiful like the poplar, but it keeps its foliage in winter.
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One resists the invasion of armies one does not resist the invasion of ideas.
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What's our baggage? Only vows, Happiness, and all our care, And the flower that sweetly shows Nestling lightly in your hair.
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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
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Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip.
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There is but one way of refusing To-morrow, that is to die.
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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.
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Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.
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A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.
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