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" But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed. "
Victor Hugo
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Indeed
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" Perseverance, secret of all triumphs. "
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" Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings. "
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" Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure. "
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" Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface. "
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" Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other. "
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" It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life. "
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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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" Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure. "
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" Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. "
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" Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. "
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" Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. "
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" Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh. "
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" Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach. "
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" Fashions have done more harm than revolutions. "
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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 mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human. "
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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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" Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. "
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" There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature. "
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