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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
Compliments
Victor Hugo

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A library implies an act of faith.
Libraries
Victor Hugo

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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Adversity
Victor Hugo

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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
Charity
Victor Hugo

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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
Human Rights
Victor Hugo

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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
Common Sense
Victor Hugo

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Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
Curiosity
Victor Hugo

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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
Planning
Victor Hugo

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For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
Gossip
Victor Hugo

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Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
Age and Aging
Victor Hugo

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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
Genius
Victor Hugo

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God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
Flirting
Victor Hugo

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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
Danger
Victor Hugo

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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
Ideas
Victor Hugo

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He does not weep who does not see.
Cries and Crying
Victor Hugo

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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Education
Victor Hugo

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I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Critics and Criticism
Victor Hugo

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
Action
Victor Hugo

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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Books - Reading
Victor Hugo

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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Laughter
Victor Hugo

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Liberation is not deliverance.
Freedom
Victor Hugo

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
Life and Living
Victor Hugo

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Life is a voyage.
Life and Living
Victor Hugo

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Love
Victor Hugo

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Happiness
Victor Hugo

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun