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" The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas. "
Victor Hugo
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" Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on. "
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" The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both. "
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" To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. "
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" There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature. "
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" Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life. "
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" Virtue has a veil, vice a mask. "
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" Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted. "
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" He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free. "
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" Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. "
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" A library implies an act of faith. "
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" To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God. "
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" The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live. "
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" All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. "
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" Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit. "
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" I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores. "
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" Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought. "
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" Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers? "
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" What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain. "
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