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"Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings." — Victor Hugo
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"To think of shadows is a serious thing." — Victor Hugo
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"England has two books, one which she has made and one which has made her: Shakespeare and the Bible." — Victor Hugo
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"It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live." — Victor Hugo
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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." — Victor Hugo
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"Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is its collective march. Progress advances, it makes the great human and earthly journey towards what is heavenly and divine; it has its pauses, when it" — Victor Hugo
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"There are people who observe the rules of honor as we observe the stars: from a distance" — Victor Hugo
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"The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it's boldness." — Victor Hugo
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"A library implies an act of faith" — Victor Hugo
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"Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters." — Victor Hugo
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"Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad" — Victor Hugo
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"Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization." — Victor Hugo
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"Anger may be foolish and obsurd, and one may be irritated when in the wrong; but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is at bottom right." — Victor Hugo
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"The peculiarity of prudery is to multiply sentinels, in proportion as the fortress is less threatened" — Victor Hugo
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"From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought." — Victor Hugo
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"Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time" — Victor Hugo
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"Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter." — Victor Hugo
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Bed    Poverty And The Poor   

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"Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter." — Victor Hugo
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"Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?" — Victor Hugo
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"When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age." — Victor Hugo
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"Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education." — Victor Hugo
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