Quote by Victor Hugo
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they dev

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human. – Victor Hugo

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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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