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Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.

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When the heart is dry the eye is dry.

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Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

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That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.

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It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.

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...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.

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Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect.

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To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.

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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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God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.

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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.

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Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.

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Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.

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A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.

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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

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One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.

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Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the tap of a swallow's bill breaking the egg, and it leads forward the birth of an earth-worm and the advent of Socrates.

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It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.

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At that moment of love, a moment when passion is absolutely silent under omnipotence of ecstasy, Marius, pure seraphic Marius, would have been more capable of visiting a woman of the streets than of raising Cosette’s dress above the ankle. Once on a moonlit night, Cosette stopped to pick up something from the ground, her dress loosened and revealed the swelling of her breasts. Marius averted his eyes.

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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

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