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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

~Victor Hugo

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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

~Victor Hugo

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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

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The flesh is the surface of the unknown.

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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

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Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

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Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Author

Born: February 26th, 1802

Died: May 22nd, 1885

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