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" Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach. "
Victor Hugo
God
Morality
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" Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. "
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" The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate. "
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" I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary. "
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" Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. "
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" He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life. "
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" Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. "
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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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" But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed. "
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" It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live. "
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" Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander. "
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" Despotism is a long crime. "
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" The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. "
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" An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise. "
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" Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. "
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" I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. "
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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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" There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height. "
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" To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful. "
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" Liberation is not deliverance. "
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" Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter. "
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" Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides. "
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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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" The learned man knows that he is ignorant. "
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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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" Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery. "
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" Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings. "
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