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Amnesty is as good for those ...

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

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I don't mind what Congress do...

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

Victor Hugo 1217 quotes

Idleness is the heaviest of a...

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

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There is a sacred horror abou...

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

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One sees qualities at a dista...

One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

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Religions do a useful thing: ...

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

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Sublime upon sublime scarcely...

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.

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Habit is the nursery of error...

Habit is the nursery of errors.

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Civil war? What does that mea...

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

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The animal is ignorant of the...

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

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The ox suffers, the cart comp...

The ox suffers, the cart complains.

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Verse in itself does not cons...

Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.

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It is often necessary to know...

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

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Taste is the common sense of ...

Taste is the common sense of genius.

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Love, in the eyes of the worl...

Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure.

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My childhood began, as everyb...

My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.

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The man who does not know oth...

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

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To be perfectly happy it does...

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

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Almost all our desires, when ...

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

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I am an intelligent river whi...

I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.

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