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Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Victor Hugo

There is one thing stronger that all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Victor Hugo

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

Victor Hugo

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.

Victor Hugo

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

Victor Hugo

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.

Victor Hugo

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Victor Hugo

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Victor Hugo

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Victor Hugo

A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.

Victor Hugo

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved—loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.

Victor Hugo

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Victor Hugo

I was always a lover of soft-winged things.

Victor Hugo

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

Victor Hugo

The clouds,--the only birds that never sleep.

Victor Hugo

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

Victor Hugo

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their number than the greatness of a man is determined by his height.

Victor Hugo

And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve his scheme; The best as the worst are futile here: We wake at the self-same point of the dream,-- All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.

Victor Hugo

King of the peak and glacier, King of the cold, white scalps, He lifts his head at that close tread, The eagle of the Alps.

Victor Hugo

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Victor Hugo

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

Victor Hugo

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