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" One believes others will do what he will do to himself. "
Victor Hugo
Others
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" Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. "
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" Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought. "
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