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This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.
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No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.
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It is often our best friends who throw us down.
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These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow.
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Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
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The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.
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Emotion is always new and the word has always served therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.
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