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The English took the eagle and Austrians the eaglet. [Fr., L'Angleterre prit l'aigle, et l'Autriche l'aiglon.]

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.
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They say love is blindness of heart I say not to love is blindness.
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
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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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As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.
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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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Out Milky Way is the dwelling the nebulae are the city.
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Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.
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