A room where one merely goes to bed costs twenty sous but a room where one retires may cost twenty francs.
("Les Miserables")
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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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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Equality, citizens, is not the whole of society on a level, a society of tall blades of grass and small oaks, or a number of entangled jealousies. It is, legally speaking, every aptitude having the same opportunity for a career; politically all consciences having the same right. Equality has an organ, gratuitous and compulsory education. We must begin with the right to the alphabet.
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The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.
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