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Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.

Victor Hugo

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing my conscience.
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Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea ignominy thirsts for respect.
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The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.
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He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends
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A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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I'm religiously opposed to religion.
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If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart.
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To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.
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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
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Ah, cried Gavroche, what does this mean? It rains again! ...If this continues, I withdraw my subscription.
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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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With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.
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. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.
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Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
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