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Quote by Victor Hugo
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. - Victor Hugo

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. – Victor Hugo

Other quotes by Victor Hugo

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman. – Victor Hugo

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Nature
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Victor Hugo
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. – Victor Hugo

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Wise Words
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Victor Hugo
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It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their childrens and grandchildrens fates, are decided. – Hillary Clinton

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Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesnt do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up. – Bette Davis

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Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do. – Dorothy Day

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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them. – Moliere

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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive. – Theodore Roosevelt

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