Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.
("Les Miserables")
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.Victor Hugo
A room where one merely goes to bed costs twenty sous but a room where one retires may cost twenty francs.
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You who are Prejudice, Abuse, Ignominy, Oppression, Iniquity, Despotism, Injustice, Fanaticism, beware of the wide-eyed urchin. He will grow up.
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Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
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One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant. They are two orders of fact which reflect each other, which are always linked and which sometimes provoke each other.
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