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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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Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.
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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
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People weighed down with troubles do not look back they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.
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You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.
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The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.
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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
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No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.
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There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
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