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Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind; distress is the nurse of self-respect; misfortune is a good breast for great souls.

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A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.

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God knows better than we do what we need.

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The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.

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You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.

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It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.

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Toleration is the best religion.

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If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire had not Peru in his pocket; and besides, America was not yet discovered. (p. 66)

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Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope!

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It is often our best friends who throw us down.

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Labor is life; thought is light.

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If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

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The beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if it be not checked in its growth by some providential event, becomes, in a certain time, hatred of society, then hatred of the human race, and then hatred of creation, and reveals itself by a vague and incessant desire to injure some living being, it matters not who.

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Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment.

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We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.

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Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.

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Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners and customs. He who sees Paris, seems to see all history through with the sky and constellations in the intervals.

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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

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Dirt has been shrewdly termed "misplaced material.

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It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.

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