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The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness. – Victor Hugo

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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest. – 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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On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. – H. L. Mencken

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Thats the great thing about a tractor. You cant really hear the phone ring. – Jeff Foxworthy

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