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Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.

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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

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Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

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To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.

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What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation.

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I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

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Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.

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In 1815, M. Charles Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D-----. He was a man of seventy-five, and had occupied the bishopric of D----- since 1806. Although it in no manner concerns, even in the remotest degree, what we have to relate, it may not be useless, were it only for the sake of exactness in all things, to notice here the reports and gossip which had arisen on his account from the time of his arrival in the diocese.

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We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.

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He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.

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Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.

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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

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A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in.

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The sewer is the conscience of the city.

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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

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Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.

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It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.

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Reality in strong doses frightens.

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What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and you look at it in the shadows and shudder.

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It is an unpleasant thing to go to bed without supper, it is a still less pleasant thing not to sup and not to know where one is to sleep.

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