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" We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution. "
Victor Hugo
Slavery
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" Genius: the superhuman in man. "
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" Puns are the droppings of soaring wits. "
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" I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul. "
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" Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence. "
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" I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt. "
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" Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly. "
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" The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God. "
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" The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real. "
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" By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour. "
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" But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed. "
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" The wise man does not grow old, but ripens. "
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" Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise. "
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" It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like. "
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Like
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" To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. "
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" A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. "
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" A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. "
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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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Plans
Day
" Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. "
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Result
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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
" Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. "
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Laughter
Human
" To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. "
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Solitude
Thanksgiving
" 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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" A library implies an act of faith. "
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" There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come. "
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" Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful. "
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Even
" The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness. "
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Girl
First
" A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable. "
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" Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it. "
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" Despotism is a long crime. "
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" To love another person is to see the face of God. "
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