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" No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep. "
Victor Hugo
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" Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet. "
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" Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted. "
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" Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God. "
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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. "
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" The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves. "
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" How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. "
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" It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her. "
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" Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. "
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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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" Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak. "
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