Quote by Victor Hugo
A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous assoc

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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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo

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Born a saint, die a sinner — born a sinner, die a saint. – Doug Horton

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