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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

~Victor Hugo

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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.

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Those who live are those who fight.

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Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

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I'm religiously opposed to religion.

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No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Author

Born: February 26th, 1802

Died: May 22nd, 1885

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