A stand can be made against invasion by an army no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.Victor Hugo
Conscience is God present in man.
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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
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No one can keep a secret better than a child.
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Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars --all the beauties of creation.
Victor Hugo
To contemplate is to look at shadows.
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