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Foppery is the egotism of clothes.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist he was an old-bookist.
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I only take a half share in the civil war I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.
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Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope!
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The beautiful is as useful as the useful. He added after a moment’s silence, Perhaps more so.
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Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.
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Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.
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