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Quote by Victor Hugo
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation. – Victor Hugo

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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. – Victor Hugo

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