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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. "
Victor Hugo
Greatness
Country
Man
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" Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. "
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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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" Toleration is the best religion. "
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" When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door. "
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" Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance. "
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" A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. "
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" When liberty returns, I will return. "
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" Stupidity talks, vanity acts. "
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" The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live. "
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" In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English. "
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" Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers? "
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" People do not lack strength; they lack will. "
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" When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. "
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" I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself. "
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Who
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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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History
Great
" Habit is the nursery of errors. "
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" He who opens a school door, closes a prison. "
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Door
School
" To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful. "
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Truth
Truth Is
" When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. "
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" I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary. "
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Put
Old
" 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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" Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure. "
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True
" A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet. "
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" The ox suffers, the cart complains. "
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Ox
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" Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. "
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Life
Time
Short
" One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation. "
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" Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty. "
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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. "
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" One believes others will do what he will do to himself. "
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