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The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.

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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

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France lost a great novel last night.

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A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.

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Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.

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Joie est mon caractere, C'est la faute a Voltaire; Misere est mon trousseau C'est la faute a Rousseau. [Joy is my character, 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Misery is my trousseau 'Tis the fault of Rousseau.] - Gavroche

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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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Genius: the superhuman in man.

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The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute, that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will spring up in a moment? Nobody knows.

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The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

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Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma.

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No one can keep a secret better than a child.

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Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.

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The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.

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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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I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

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Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.

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Monastic incarceration is castration.

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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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