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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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. – Victor Hugo

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I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself. – 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 as come. – Victor Hugo

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Saint. A dead sinner revised and edited. – Ambrose Bierce

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The true saint goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single moments. – Abu Said

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It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest. – Oscar Wilde

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It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. – George Santayana

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