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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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Women are more credulous than men.
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When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.
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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
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O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.
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A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.
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Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
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...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.
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The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.
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A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.
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To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!
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Never laugh at those who suffer suffer sometimes those who laugh.
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A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.
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She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.
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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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[T]he small is great, the great is small all is in equilibrium in necessity.
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He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.
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Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
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