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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. "
Victor Hugo
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" The wise man does not grow old, but ripens. "
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" Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds. "
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" Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface. "
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" The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness. "
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" A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. "
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" When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes. "
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" There is nothing like a dream to create the future. "
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" The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised. "
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" When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. "
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" Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. "
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" But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed. "
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" What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past. "
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" The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas. "
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" The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human. "
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