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Progress is the life-style of man.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
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There is in every village a torch - the teacher and an extinguisher - the priest.
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A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.
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where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice?
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It has become necessary to call the attention of European governments to a fact which is apparently so insignificant that the governments seem not to notice it. The fact is this: an entire people is being annihilated. Where? In Europe. Are there witnesses? One witness, the entire world. Do the governments see it? No.
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Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
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Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.
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A smile is the same as sunshine it banishes winter from the human countenance.
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To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.
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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
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If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
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Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.
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And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity in a girl, it is boldness.
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The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.
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The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.
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To have lied is to have suffered.
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To contemplate is to look at shadows.
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