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

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

Other quotes by Victor Hugo

A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement — in a word, with more renunciation than you care for — and so you flee the contagion. – Victor Hugo

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Saint, Saints
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Victor Hugo
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He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life. – Victor Hugo

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Morning
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Victor Hugo
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The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both. – Victor Hugo

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Poetry
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Victor Hugo
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Other Quotes from
Men
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Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men. – George Bernard Shaw

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Men

Most people know no other way of judging mens worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Men

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Men

The truth is, Ive never fooled anyone. Ive let men sometimes fool themselves. – Marilyn Monroe

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Men

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I mean, when you get down to very low numbers of nuclear weapons, and you contemplate going to zero, how do you deal with the reality of that technology being available to almost any country that seeks to pursue it? And what conditions do you put in place? – Robert M. Gates

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When Im good, Im very good. But when Im bad Im better. – Mae West

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