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Labor is life thought is light.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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If the infinite had no me, then me would be its limit. It would not be the infinite, therefore it would not be.
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.
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I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.
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There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
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Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.
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