French - Author | February 26, 1802 - May 22, 1885
By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
Victor Hugo
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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
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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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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
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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.
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