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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

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. – Victor Hugo

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thanksgiving
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Victor Hugo
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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. – Victor Hugo

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architecture
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Victor Hugo
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Stronger by weakness, wiser men become. – Edmund Waller

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There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families. – Margaret Thatcher

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The working men, Ill go by and theyll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, Oh, its a girl. Shes got blond hair and shes not out of shape, and then they say, Gosh, its Marilyn Monroe! – Marilyn Monroe

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He had read much, if one considers his long life but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men. – Isaac Asimov

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Its about strengthening the relationship and the bond of parent to child. – Blair Underwood

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I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change were used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that were moving closer and closer to that tipping point. – Al Gore

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